A review by greenchasm
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

1.0

Why! Why would you write the only romance that could be rooted for in the last three pages of the book, leaving it up to the reader to decide when it started and other details. Edmund was literally obsessed with Mary for 90% of the book, talked about it all the time, wrote that she would be in his heart forever, etc. I just really wish this romance could have developed more within the meat of the book. I do feel like Maria and Mrs. Norris got some justice, literally being exiled to another country (?), but Henry should have been equally punished, if not more so! I feel so bad for Fanny, she was adopted by her horrible aunt who called her poor and ugly her whole life in a house full of annoying relatives, but she somehow turned out to love Mansfield and be entirely devoted to Edmund, wild.