books i read in december ❆

Here are all the books I read in the last month of 2018! Some quite mixed ratings but I'm really excited to have found some new all-time favourites ✨ ❇ No. of books read: 10 ❇ Pages read: ❇ Genres: 2 classics, 1 memoir, 1 romance, 2 fantasy, 1 dystopian, 1 contemporary, 1 historical fiction, 1 poetry collection Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys ★★ ★ This was just pretty mediocre for me. Rhys essentially tells what she imagines to be the backstory of Bertha Mason - otherwise known as ‘the mad woman in the attic’ - from Jane Eyre; her childhood, how she met Rochester, their relationship, but most importantly why she went mad. I definitely appreciated the idea behind Wide Sargasso Sea; Charlotte Bronte doesn’t give Bertha any history in her book, using her more as a sort of plot device, and so I enjoyed reading about her decline into madness as it allowed me as a reader to appreciate who she really was and why she ended up the way she did