Reviews - Sense and Sensibility

12.6k reviews for:

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

3.96 AVERAGE

asha_m's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mcgregor_callum's review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

clarissaosnes's review against another edition

5.0

Yet again, my biggest regret is that I didn't give this book a chance, just because I expected it to be dull and without an interesting storyline. I started reading it with extemely low expectations, just curious to see what all the fuss was about (all of my book nerd friends who've read it absolutely adore it). After 50 pages I hadn't found anything that should interest me, so I put the book down and decided to continue some other time.

Now that I did find the time and the enthusiasm to finish it, I found a lot of similarities with Elinor and Marianne's relationship and my relationship with my sister. My sister is a dreamer just like Marianne and easily brushes those off who don't agree with her, and I tend to observe and analyze everything in the fear of making a rash decision and regretting it later in life, just like Elinor. For this reason I was hooked on finding out how the sisters ended up in this mess of feelings and sickness that circled around their existance.

Austen is truly a genius. I adored her word choices and ways to describe the feelings of the sisters. I felt like I was really there in their world listening and observing all the happenings messing up the nobelties lives. One of my new favourite books and authors.