A review by jellogirl2010
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

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

1.5

This book took me an insufferably long time to read and I didn't enjoy it at all. Try as I might, I just couldn't get into it. I found all the characters - including Fanny - totally unlikeable and the house felt more like the main character than anyone else. You also cannot convince me that Henry Crawford was truly in love with her, he knew how to charm a woman and he used every tool in his arsenal to do it, when she rejected him, his ego was bruised more than anything and he went to Maria to feel better about himself...

All in all, this feels like a very weak entry into her very stellar bibliography.

Also, we've been fooled and gaslit somewhere along the line... because Edmund does not once say that he's loved her as a hero loves a heroine. He doesn't have it in him to say something that romantic. Unless I'm mistaking another one of her books for Mansfield Park, but I could swear he's said it in some book to movie adaptation
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