A review by writer_in_the_dark
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Did not finish book. Stopped at 43%.

Somehow this book just wasn't for me. Maybe it was a mistake picking this up while I was in college, already so overwhelmed by all the readings, to read about a character who is in a very overwhelming situation herself. But simultaneously, it felt like nothing has really 'happened' in the book so far, even though I'm almost halfway through- while many events have taken place, they just seem to float around and appear for the sake of having something happen instead of being driven by the consequences of previous events or Agnes's actions. Nor do we know how Agnes felt about these events, how they impacted her, and how she grew (or remained the same) because of them. And this is coming from someone who has read Les Misérables, with more plot and character development in 80 pages (a small fraction of that book) as opposed to almost half of this one. 

And this is more of a me problem than a book problem, but it didn't help that my copy had an extremely vague, misleading blurb, which suggested that it would be a work of historical fiction, so I was thrown off guard as I realised the book was not what I thought it was.

I might pick this up some other time perhaps.