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I think this one is maybe closer to a 3.5 for me. Overall, I found it highly readable; I was engrossed in the story and the character development was so well done. Hated Robert, but probably because of how well he was written. Some people found the beginning slow, but I personally didn’t think so. I loved the historical context - being after the war, going to Oxford, being a woman at Oxford and in journalism during that time period.

What I didn’t care for was the ambiguous ending. It left me feeling like�� “wait that’s it?��. After all that? I found City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert to be in the same vein as this book, but to this day the message of the book is still imprinted on me. I had that “wow that just happened�� feeling, whereas I didn’t with this book. I really feel like it could be improved with a stronger, harder hitting ending.

I also have this niggling feeling of Freya and feminism being written from a male perspective and it feeling like a male perspective. And I mean like a slightly “negative�� perspective. It makes me wonder if that is why Freya is maybe not as “likeable�� as other feminist heroines. Did any one else feel this way or is it just me?