16.1k reviews for:

Persuasion

Jane Austen

4.11 AVERAGE

maludrcm's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Esse é um dos livros que eu mais amo da vida, a personagem principal Anne , eu pessoalmente me identifico. E a linda história de um amor antigo.

littlevix's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

bibliogrotto's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Delicious torture with tear jerking relief.

echombravo's review against another edition

5.0

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Didn't disappoint! I've never read the book though I've seen a few film/TV versions. Love the letter from Captain Wentworth. It's always my favorite part.

mangobooks's review against another edition

3.0

emotional funny sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

obsessively's review against another edition

4.5

funny hopeful relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

skelly_bones's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hypersonicfrog's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful fast-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

sisu02's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mikekelly4815's review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I appreciate plenty of older novels and plays, but I still find it incredible that, two-hundred years on, Jane Austen's novels are not just insightful, but funny and readable page-turners. This novel went down smoother than pretty much anything I've read this year.

Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen. She did not blame Lady Russell, she did not blame herself for having been guided by her; but she felt that were any young person, in similar circumstances, to apply to her for counsel, they would never receive any of such certain immediate wretchedness, such uncertain future good . . .

How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been! how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence! She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.