Washington Square

I'm left wondering what the whole point of this book was. The plot is basically what you read in the blurb, and even if you went in without reading the blurb, you could probably tell how the story's going to unfold within the first few chapters anyway. It took at least 25 agonizing chapters for the story to reach a pivotal moment that we saw coming from the beginning. I definitely found the second act of the book a lot more engaging than the first, where we finally get past that long-awaited moment in the story and can finally get on to finding out what happens to the characters after.

There's probably a deeper point to this story that I'm not getting. I didn't hate it, but I'm not really sure if I'd reread it again. I give it 3 stars because I quite enjoyed the writing style, especially in the first few chapters before we embarked on watching a train wreck happening in extreme slow-motion.