"Gone with the wind" by Margaret Mitchell

Hello, book dragons! 📖 

At the very begging of January I started reading the first book of the "Gone with the wind" duology. Firstly because of the beauty of the new edition that my mom gifted me at my name day on 31 of December 2021, and secondly because of all the amazing things I've heard and read from the fascinated readers, I decided ot pick it up shortly after it entered my home library. Stick with me throughout the next lines so you can see what my journey with the classic was like. 

About the author:
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In recent years long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.

Annotation of the book:
Scarlett O'Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

My review:
I'm completely and entirely devastated after turning the last page of this unforgettable story! At the begging, despite all the praises, I was a little sceptic, but after reading the first twentish pages I lost my breath...

The way that Mitchell writes doesn't quite works through my brain having in mind the fact that she lived in 1930s. I'm fascinated with how her words just flow like there is strong wind under them ; playing with them as if they are just some light leaves. And the words she chooses are not so... old as I have imagined them to be. She even is a little harsh sometimes, making her characters swear and be sarcastic, something very unusual for a woman living back then.

The author's characters are so vivid as if they are there with me all of the time, just a little out of reach for me to see and talk to them when I raise my head from the lines of text. Their decisions and desires, personalities and wonders are so humanly. Many of their decisions I think I would have made myself if I was accidently put at a situation like that. They grow through the book. We see this mainly in the main character Scarlett O'Hara that has changed the most - from a child to a woman. The other character that I've saw most difference in is her love interest - Rhett Butler.

The storyline has been a roller-coaster even for my thick experience as a reader. There were so many ups and downs that I couldn't begin to understand them while reading. But was this a bad thing? Nooo! It was really, really awesome! I love when a book can make me laugh, cry and be mad in just a couple of pages without it being too much for me.

In conclusion, for the two books, I give 5/5 stars! The same stars I give also for the first and for the second book alone. And I want, one last time, to say that I truly LOVE IT!

Thank you for staying with me till the end of the review!

Have a nice day and stay safe♡!