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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
If you make yourself forget the fact that Fanny and Edmund are literally cousins, and that Edmund is a church boy, then it's pretty cute! As far as social commentary and plot go, I definitely prefer this book to Persuasion but Emma and Pride and Prejudice remain firmly at the top of my tier list.
emotional
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
Es una historia, que para no contar gran cosa me tuvo tremendamente enganchada todo el tiempo. Es una historia un tanto rara para mí y que el resultado de las parejas al final me dejó bastante atónita. Es un romance en el que en ningún momento supe que esperar o a quien shipear. Basicamente, lo que menos me gustó de la historia es el romance entre Fanny y su primo y siempre lo vi como algo no aconsejable. Aún así creo que es un final muy dramático que me sorprendió y me deja con un buen recuerdo de la historia.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Very interesting for about 200 pages and then a bit of a slog for the rest; too many narcissists sitting around and thinking.
Doesn’t discredit what Austen was ultimately striving for - certainly the subjugation and transformation of Fanny Price from meek coastal girl to the mistress of a grand estate is an exciting one, with plenty of embedded social drama. Ultimately though, the messaging just becomes a little too vague and inconsistent, reading as either conservative or almost radical from one passage to the other. The inconsistency wouldn’t be as much of an issue if I could like any of the characters at all or care about anything that was happening.
Certainly those first 200 or so pages — where it’s just so gleefully mean that it’s almost Dickensian — are very fun and exciting, but I didn’t get as much out of it as I would’ve liked after that point.
Doesn’t discredit what Austen was ultimately striving for - certainly the subjugation and transformation of Fanny Price from meek coastal girl to the mistress of a grand estate is an exciting one, with plenty of embedded social drama. Ultimately though, the messaging just becomes a little too vague and inconsistent, reading as either conservative or almost radical from one passage to the other. The inconsistency wouldn’t be as much of an issue if I could like any of the characters at all or care about anything that was happening.
Certainly those first 200 or so pages — where it’s just so gleefully mean that it’s almost Dickensian — are very fun and exciting, but I didn’t get as much out of it as I would’ve liked after that point.
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This one almost took me out. Not Jane’s best work. If this wasn’t for a book club, I would not have finished. 1 star is for Pug.
sad
slow-paced
the most painful to read through austen, not because of the usual criticisms (that it's boring, that it's overdramatic, that it's not romantic), but because throughout mansfield park, i felt so much for fanny, unloved and shy and small. the most heartbreaking heroine by far, a cinderella story where she never gets to go to the ball, because she can't even believe herself deserving of a night off. far form finding it boring, i thought it was the most fascinating austen; for once not as focused on the characters, but the place they inhabit and the environment's relationship to the characters. very layered, very unreliable, with a lot of things to keep looking back on and reconsidering, and i continue thinking about it even weeks later.
hopeful
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes