Wide Sargasso Sea

Wrote a whole long review but Goodreads crashed and I lost it. Notes:

- sad, scary, yellow wallpaper vibes - isolation, gaslighting, a terrible/controlling man
- both characters are unreliable narrators which is fun
- starts slow but builds to something intense
- not sure I would have got as much out of it, ESPECIALLY out of Part 3, if I hadn't read Jane Eyre.
- Antoinette's narration was compelling and wonderful
- the husband's narration was scary but something missing...his transition from confused to deliberately evil (on purpose planning to make her believe she was crazy) felt sudden and a bit out of character. I think I would have liked it more if he had thought he was doing the right thing but just really not understood her. Could have been the same end result and in some ways scarier. Not controlling her out of anger but out of “care” but still his power (financially, socially, etc) creating a situation she can't get out of.