As much as we have all vocalize how much we dislike Briony, especially me, and while I could just sit here and rant about how terrible that little brat of a child is, I don’t want to do that.  Plot twist I’m going talk about Cecelia because she got the short end of the stick throughout the entire novel. She’s just different although she went to Cambridge she didn’t do very well and that’s talked about a lot in the first section of the novel and there’s even times when Leon’s there and she just wants to talk to him and have a drink with him and she finds that to be difficult because of Paul Marshall and then of course everything with Robbie and I’m gonna unpack that a little bit.  I think that a lot of her differences and her little quirks and things that are just different about her than anybody else in the novel is that she is the one person who is actually in love. Now she would never dare to say it out loud but it’s obvious in the way that she always notices him wherever he is and she is always thinking of little things she could do to get his attention even when she’s talking to him she tries to sound more intelligent in what she’s talking about to relate to him on some level because he also went to Cambridge  but he’s a little brighter than she is. Her biggest issue with all of it, underlying even if she’s not fully aware of it, is the issue of class that is persistent through this whole novel.  She knows that she can’t really be with him because it would look bad because he’s in a lower class than she is but that also doesn’t stop her from interacting with him and then after she gets that note, when she knows how he feels, she wants him just as much as he very clearly stated he wanted her. But unfortunately for us Briony exists in this novel for some reason or another lol I know she wrote this freaking story anyways she ruined it for Cecelia and although she was a child and she thought Robbie was hurting her does not mean that she can take it to the extent that she did and go run and get the note and show everyone what happened in the library like girl that is so extra please calm down and she ruined that and that’s what hurts. It was the one thing her sister really wanted.. Robbie. I also feel the need to talk about Robbie because he’s low-key the best character in the whole book. Obviously he has some flaws and he can’t see because he picks up the wrong note which had he been more careful all of this could’ve been avoided but anyway, when he’s accused of this he doesn’t fight back or anything because he knows his place. Even though he’s clearly very smart and very intelligent he knows his place and although we’re not sure if the whole section about Robbie being in France is factual at all because it all came from freaking Briony that just shows his leadership capabilities and I don’t know I just really liked him.  Also in the illusion of the apartment scene with Cecelia and Robbie and Briony he had every right to be upset but like he still didn’t hurt her they still let her do what she felt like she needed to do to reconcile with them even though I didn’t really work because nobody likes her. All in all Robbie and Cecelia deserved better and as hard as Briony tried to make this a cute little romance novel at the end where they are together unfortunately for us we find out that they actually died and we don’t get a nice little romantic ending but #RobbieAndCeceliaDeservedBetter