nellekepei 's review for:

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
5.0

I loved this book so much! I only wish it hadn’t ended so abruptly, the moment the plot resolved. Up till that moment, I was loving this book as well as I love Pride and Prejudice, and even Persuasion. But Jane Austen has a way of setting you down gently as you end her stories, with the “when did you first…?” conversations and the tying up of all possible loose ends that could be tied. Gaskell doesn’t do that, and suddenly the story is over. I’m complaining because I just didn’t want it to end!