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Sense & Sensibility
by Joanna Trollope
This book is part of a series called The Austen Project. The series reinvents and retells six of Austen's novels. This is the second book that I've read in the series. The other was Eligible, a P&P retelling.
Eligible had nothing on this one. I love S&S. As much as I wish I was a Lizzie Bennet, I relate much more to Elinor Dashwood's total repression of her feelings.
This is a fantastic retelling of S&S. It keeps all the best elements of the original novel. The bad guys stay bad guys (one of my biggest disappointments with the P&P retelling was that this was NOT the case). Marianne and Elinor are still polar opposites. Edward and Brandon are still hopeless and lovable. Fanny is still the devil.
S&S held on to all of the major plot points of the original novel as well. I never forgot that I was reading an Austen reinterpretation. It was funny, sad, heartwarming, and frustrating. I haven't read the rest of the series of Austen retellings but I think I can safely say this one will remain my favorite.
Eligible had nothing on this one. I love S&S. As much as I wish I was a Lizzie Bennet, I relate much more to Elinor Dashwood's total repression of her feelings.
This is a fantastic retelling of S&S. It keeps all the best elements of the original novel. The bad guys stay bad guys (one of my biggest disappointments with the P&P retelling was that this was NOT the case). Marianne and Elinor are still polar opposites. Edward and Brandon are still hopeless and lovable. Fanny is still the devil.
S&S held on to all of the major plot points of the original novel as well. I never forgot that I was reading an Austen reinterpretation. It was funny, sad, heartwarming, and frustrating. I haven't read the rest of the series of Austen retellings but I think I can safely say this one will remain my favorite.