I really did want to like this but it seemed like the author used too many cliches for it to be interesting enough. One of the main ones was how the youngest daughter did not like to fuss over her appearance too much unlike the other daughters.
This is especially problematic today as it perpetuates the stereotype that people who read books do not care enough about their appearance to wear makeup or something of the sort.
And yes, I am aware this book was set in the late 1800s (at least, this was the setting closest to the line about makeup and whatnot) but these were the narrator's thoughts and not those of the people around them.
I feel like this book had the potential to be something good and somehow it just wasn't.
This is especially problematic today as it perpetuates the stereotype that people who read books do not care enough about their appearance to wear makeup or something of the sort.
And yes, I am aware this book was set in the late 1800s (at least, this was the setting closest to the line about makeup and whatnot) but these were the narrator's thoughts and not those of the people around them.
I feel like this book had the potential to be something good and somehow it just wasn't.