Reviews

Persuasion by Jane Austen

vidyakvictor's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

booksansbluess's review against another edition

emotional funny sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

bootlegdarklord's review against another edition

reflective slow-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

2.0

I think I just read this at a bad time, but I could not for the life of me bring myself to care about this book at all, genuinely have no idea why. I don’t even think this book is bad or anything, but I had to read it in like two days for class so I couldn’t really absorb it much, which I think made it boring for me. Maybe I’ll reread it one day and change my opinion, but I just didn’t connect with this one.

mruds's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

dbogen47's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

This is some of Jane Austen’s most beautiful writing. I do feel it is missing something…the world if she published it while she was alive. But overall incredibly moving and affecting 

vic_nikole22's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

reyreads's review against another edition

5.0

Jane Austen you will always be admired and famous and adored and no one will ever write romance as you do…that letter alone buries anything written in the last century

katharine2k's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

13iscute's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

2024 Reading Challenges
• ATY #13. A book that is on a Five Books List
• WoJ #7. A book with a one-word title.
• Popsugar #13. A book originally published under a pen name
• Classic 4 of 12

How I selected this book
Time to read another Jane Austen

Plot summary

A family rents out their house because they are short on money. Anne re-falls in love with the navy captain who previously wasn't good enough for her.

Thoughts
Not as good as the other Austen's I've read (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma).   But it did make me want to watch a mini-series. Too much use of the word "persuasion".

lu_library's review against another edition

funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75