A review by beautifulandfullofmonsters
Persuasion by Jane Austen

4.0

“ ‘My dear Admiral, that post! we shall certainly take that post.'

But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself, they happily passed the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand, they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found herself safely deposited by them at the cottage.“

I died laughing over that section.

I enjoyed this but I see why it isn’t one of the “big three” Austen novels. Anne Elliot is not the same kind of protagonist as Elizabeth and Emma. And now I understand what everyone found wrong with the recent Netflix adaptation of Persuasion. Couldn’t they have adapted a different Austen novel? Or done this one differently?