A review by sakaloar
Emma by Alexander McCall Smith

3.0

This would have been a 4-star book for me until the last 25%. It was a relaxed, easy page-turner, and while it was perhaps overly faithful to the original, provided a fun read. Unfortunately, there were a few aspects that just didn’t work. The questioning of Emma’s sexuality didn’t really go anywhere, George and Emma’s chemistry hastily thrown in at the end wasn’t very believable, and Jane Fairfax was somehow mopier and more obnoxious than in Austen’s novel. I enjoyed much of the banter and dialogue, but felt the plot was paused and then hastily tied up at the end. This is also somewhat true in the original, but it’s not done as craftily in this case.