Agnes Grey

All telling, no showing. Not even the romantic scenes managed to keep me interested, which is usually a very bad sign. It's not bad as such, just very bland. Anne is a very inferiour writer to her two sisters, but at least her characters didn't exasperate me, the way the characters of "Wuthering Heights" did, so if I had to reread one of the two, it'd probably be this one, despite WH being better...more

All telling, no showing. Not even the romantic scenes managed to keep me interested, which is usually a very bad sign. It's not bad as such, just very bland. Anne is a very inferiour writer to her two sisters, but at least her characters didn't exasperate me, the way the characters of "Wuthering Heights" did, so if I had to reread one of the two, it'd probably be this one, despite WH being better written.   hide