A review by carriedoodledoo
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore

3.0

All right so. 60%-ish of the way through this book, I wanted to give up. I put it back on my "to read" shelf and returned the book to the library. But I couldn't stop thinking about the characters! Yeah, it gets slow in parts (I really don't care about John Ridd going to London), but that's the story! John Is the narrator, and he puts in all the parts that are important to him. The atmosphere and descriptions really bring the reader into the world.

This is a reread for me, and I like it. A classic of English literature, that's a swashbuckling romance. I wish Blackamore had written "The Adventures of Tom Faggus"!