Reviews

Jill by Philip Larkin

mirandags's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Overall the sentences are quite well-written but the plot suffers. Started strong, but got very slow in the middle when the main character created an imaginary sister. Quite tedious. Picked up at the end with his bizarre infatuation with a 15 year old girl. 🤮

muuske's review

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

emlimey's review

3.0

Cute. Bought this at blackwell’s in Oxford. Nice cute story about Oxford and student life in 1940

heartsneedle's review

3.0

2.5/5
Metaphor, Juvenilia

"He walked on, the letter in his hand. The College nurse passed him wondering if perhaps he had just received some bad news. He did not see her."

Overall: Jill is poetically staged with descriptive, sometimes erratic language drawing out observations of everyday life and particularities of places and emotions people hold. For a debut, intelligent, but graceless, the pacing is inconsistent and overwrought with self-pity for far too many pages.

chaoticbookgremlin's review

reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

checkie's review

3.25

I enjoyed the descriptions of Oxford and university life in the first half but was put off by the plot in the second. 

annekrag's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

beelliot123's review

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

bookynooknook's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

3.0

oliviamarrrobinson's review

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0