A review by decafdirtychai
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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

4.75

 Even more Brideshead-y the second time around. Jeremy Irons has the perfect autumnal voice for this book, but there are some slurs in it! Invoked a strange feeling. This book has every trope you need for a September read: 1st person observatory narrator, enchantingly sad woman, "thwarted" love, inconclusive thoughts on religion, melancholy + nostalgia, a thick layer of homosexuality without calling it that, descent into alcoholism, English estates, and a feeling that you need to cry without being able to. I wish I could write like this, I'd never shut up.

If you wanted to like The Secret History (Tartt), but didn't, you could try this one instead. 
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