Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It took me way too long to read this. The thing is that it took me a while to really get into the story. This book contains Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well as The Bottle Imp. The first of those stories was really intriguing. I don't think many books give me the chills but this one did. It certainly would've helped if I hadn't known the plot-twist at the end. I also enjoyed that it was mostly straight to the point instead of droning on and on about things that are irrelevant to the plot. I felt very sympathetic towards Dr Jekyll and couldn't help but be guarded against Mr Hyde. I also really liked how at the very beginning of the story there are a few passages that tell us what the story will come to. Excellent foreshadowing that is actually not so obvious unless you already knew the plot. I also liked the fact that even if I already knew the plot-twist, the rest of the story had been a mystery to me so I took great pleasure in finding out what happened next. Obviously it happened at about 30 pages in. It doesn't sound like much except the story is 70 pages long approximately. Next came The Bottle Imp which I also really liked. The story is simple but the characters are amazing. They have such human emotions that are sometimes lacking in stories. For a 30 pages-long story the characters are really complex and you can really feel for them. All in all, I loved it and it has become one of my favourite classics.
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