mrears0_0's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
a bit formulaic
charleyeliza's review against another edition
3.0
I cannot rate Jane less than 3 stars but Fanny Price is the most insufferable woman in all of literature.
kayedacus's review against another edition
4.0
This was my Annual Austen pick for 2015. It's probably been at least six or seven years since the last time I read it. But this time around, for the first time, it actually inspired me with a new story idea---set in the same Portsmouth world of my first two Ransome novels.
july2104's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
newishpuritan's review against another edition
3.0
The arguments for this as a more experimental or ambitious novel than Austen's greatest hits can't change a fundamental fact: it's just a very odd structural decision to invest all of the narrative's attention onto the wrong relationships.
leasummer's review against another edition
4.0
Toward the end of part 2 it finally gets interesting. Glad Fanny stuck to her guns, her character is a little mousy but proves to be the most level headed - and correct.
awilderm23's review against another edition
3.0
‘The man who means to make you love him ... must have very uphill work, for there are all of you early attachments and habits in battle array; before he can get your heart for his own use he has to unfasten it from all the holds upon things animate and inanimate which so many years growth have confirmed and which are considerably tightened for the moment by the idea of separation.’
‘Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.’
‘It was an attachment to govern his whole life.’
‘If reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.’
‘Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.’
‘It was an attachment to govern his whole life.’
‘If reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.’
manoushp109's review against another edition
2.0
good book to talk ab in class - horrible book to read. i was consistently bored and it took forever