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A review by outersgrace
Persuasion by Jane Austen
funny
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
5.0
lying on my bed kicking my feet in glee - this is what this book did to me. jane austen just hits every time. i always doubt it in the first 50 odd pages cuz she is a slow starter w all her set up and character introductions of miss this sir that captain this and they all blend together for a bit. but then suddenly, where i was once willing myself to turn every page i find myself flying through and unable to put it down. it was the same with this book.
i never knew i liked second-chance romance but this book showed me i most definitely DO my god. i was underlining shit all over the place, but there were a few specific passages that just hit:
“Once so much to each other! Now nothing!…Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement”p.12
like i’m sorry miss austen WHAT? OW.
and then the progression to this letter kills me off.
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul (SCREAMS). 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 (swoons). - 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.” p.191
like i’m sorry if i ever received that letter i would combust on the spot. it’s always “wyd” and never “you pierce my soul”. i’m fucking inconsolable.
anyways yeah, this book was insane. gonna go ruin it now and watch the crappy netflix movie of it.
i never knew i liked second-chance romance but this book showed me i most definitely DO my god. i was underlining shit all over the place, but there were a few specific passages that just hit:
“Once so much to each other! Now nothing!…Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement”p.12
like i’m sorry miss austen WHAT? OW.
and then the progression to this letter kills me off.
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul (SCREAMS). 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 (swoons). - 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.” p.191
like i’m sorry if i ever received that letter i would combust on the spot. it’s always “wyd” and never “you pierce my soul”. i’m fucking inconsolable.
anyways yeah, this book was insane. gonna go ruin it now and watch the crappy netflix movie of it.