A review by mudder17
Emma by Jane Austen

4.0

This book is definitely much more prickly than Pride and Prejudice, but once I viewed it as Jane Austen poking fun at society, I started laughing out loud. I kept thinking, "I really don't like Emma," but as time progressed, she started growing on me by the end, when she realized just how ridiculous she was, I was totally pulling for her and John Knightly. In some ways, I felt like she was Mr. Darcy and he was Elizabeth Bennett. He was ridiculously patient with her and that made me want to tell her to wake up, lol! I absolutely love P&P and have read the book at least a handful of times, watched the Colin Firth movie (he IS Mr. Darcy), read spin-offs, including P & P & Zombies (plus the movie), and have just generally enjoyed all that the book has inspired. So it would be difficult for any of her other works to highly impress me, although part of that is probably due to unfamiliarity. I'm really glad I gave this a try and can definitely see myself rereading it at some point and will be checking out the Gwyneth Paltrow movie. I plan on reading more of Jane Austen's works as well! I'm trying to decide between Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.