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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

3.83 AVERAGE

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

Me encontré muy inmersa en el drama que ocurría pero al final me quedé esperando más de lo que se ofreció al final, excelente escritura como siempre, Jane Austen always serving with that 🤌 pero como dije, la historia me dejó sintiendo como si estuviera incompleta y no me permitió conectar realmente con la relación amorosa de los personajes, I needed more 😔
funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous lighthearted slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3,5 geven gaat niet, dus we geven Jane het voordeel van de twijfel!
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DID NOT FINISH: 20%

I am not familiar with the gothic genre, I don‘t read gothics and I don‘t care about a novel parodying the gothic genre.

Reading Austen‘s writing feels like repeatedly banging my head against the wall. The writing and word choices are just too old for my brain to comprehend. I don‘t know anything about what Austen was writing about so there is nothing to help me contextualize whatever is said or done.
funny lighthearted reflective 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
slow-paced
Loveable characters: No
funny lighthearted 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

This book is for the girlies, whether it's 1817 or 2025 we are united by the shared experience of having to interact with men with undue confidence and self importance and also by the shared experience of when u just make up a whole entire narrative about a situation in ur head just for the drama 

As I summarised it informally: "Well, she's being flirted with by chauvinists and being abandoned by her gold digger friend." Enjoyable enough, with a naive and honestly pretty ignorant protagonist who's surrounded by selfish people, but with interesting reflections on assumptions both made by characters about one another and by readers about the genre.