Review: Less about events and more about lives.  A refreshing read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
This is my first George Eliot book, so I wasn't sure what to expect as far as writing style or type of story. There isn't much of a specific point to the story, it's really just about the lives of people in the book, and how circumstances affect them.At first Eliot was showing different people that didn't have much to do with each other, and I was wondering just where this was going. But things became a bit clearer as the book went on, and just when it got to where everything seemed to connect, the story jumps ahead quite a bit of time.The first part introduces the characters, goes into detail on who they are and what their lives are like, then brings on a few events that affect their lives. The second part of the story shows how their lives have become, after being affected by the events in the first part. The story is less about events and more about lives, and how people interact with each other. As such, it was a refreshing read. I'm glad I took the time.