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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book took me awhile to get through because i often struggle with the amount of characters in Austen’s novels, but i enjoyed myself in the end! I listened to the audiobook narrated by Karen Savage and that helped me get into the story. Anne might be my favourite Austen heroine; she is sensible, kind and quiet and I found her love story with captain Wentworth compelling and sweet.
I lowkey was clocked out but I liked how scathing Jane Austen can get
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
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:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-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
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Wentworth 🥰
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”
informative
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-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
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book was a chore. The last chapters were the ones containing everything that I came to this book for, which had me perplexed because the whole book could've been, you know, like that.
I read somewhere that Persuasion, being Jane's last work before her death, felt unfinished like unfleshed and I must agree. It feels like a first draft like if life had given her more time, she would've actually made this book feel more... finished.
This is the first Jane Austen book I read so I am not familiar with her style, so I don't know if the problems I had with this novel are issues present in all her works, so I'll keep a tab on this and make a more informed judgment later on.
In the meanwhile, this book was boring because the presence of everything that makes it good (Anne and Capt. Wentworth) is criminally low. There are so many characters I simply did not give a single fuck about and that I never could keep track of, they simply sorta blended one with the other, the book was like three quarters done and we still have new mr. & mrs. introductions like Jane, why???
As I said, the last four chapters are the ones that contain all I was hoping to find when I picked up this book and it almost feels too little too late if not for Jane's materful writing like yeah, we gotta say it, the prose is Good, the novel might be boring but the mastery is there, obviously, and enjoying that with the story I wanted to know all about from the start in those last chapters is what saved it for me.
I wouldn't recommend it as an intro to Jane Austen as this has been my case and I don't think it's fair to judge her by this alone. I will pick Pride and Prejudice next and see how it all goes, then.
I read somewhere that Persuasion, being Jane's last work before her death, felt unfinished like unfleshed and I must agree. It feels like a first draft like if life had given her more time, she would've actually made this book feel more... finished.
This is the first Jane Austen book I read so I am not familiar with her style, so I don't know if the problems I had with this novel are issues present in all her works, so I'll keep a tab on this and make a more informed judgment later on.
In the meanwhile, this book was boring because the presence of everything that makes it good (Anne and Capt. Wentworth) is criminally low. There are so many characters I simply did not give a single fuck about and that I never could keep track of, they simply sorta blended one with the other, the book was like three quarters done and we still have new mr. & mrs. introductions like Jane, why???
As I said, the last four chapters are the ones that contain all I was hoping to find when I picked up this book and it almost feels too little too late if not for Jane's materful writing like yeah, we gotta say it, the prose is Good, the novel might be boring but the mastery is there, obviously, and enjoying that with the story I wanted to know all about from the start in those last chapters is what saved it for me.
I wouldn't recommend it as an intro to Jane Austen as this has been my case and I don't think it's fair to judge her by this alone. I will pick Pride and Prejudice next and see how it all goes, then.