A review by mochasandbooks
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I found that while this is a book I am glad I read, it is not one I see myself returning to. Our narrator, in his effort to catalog his experience, can be quite jumpy, and the formal language made it something of a slow book, even if more than a year takes place in the hundred or so pages. 
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