یادداشت روژان صادقی

        This book promises to be a lot. A character study, a love story, a coming of age story, a commentary on British society and at times "feminism". But it is short, maybe too short; and it suffers from the excess of important themes to discuss and in result the lack of depth. 

It seems to be a love story but our main love interests only encounter 2 or 3 times and so briefly, that I really didn't care about what happened to them. In other words, I wasn't "rooting" for them! 

It tries to be a character study but the characteristics of everyone in this book is so inconsistent that I can't take this as a serious attempt at what it was aiming for. 

Forester's criticism of the British society of that time could've been something great but half way through the book it gets lost in meaningless dialogues and events. 

I won't even get started on the feminist side of the story because the ending pretty much ruined everything I was hoping to happen to Lucy, our main character. 

The only theme that is sufficiently discussed in this book in my opinion is the coming of age of our main character. Forster does this with relying on themes such as independence, the importance of travelling and therefore the importance of having different world views. (but then again I'm not satisfied with how things turned out for her in the end) 

So take of that what you will but I can't see myself recommending this book to people in the future