A review by bottomofthebookshelf
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

3.0

I started off really liking this book, but as it went on it felt like nothing much was happening. The writing style was easy to digest so it kept me reading, but I just found myself getting bored. I know Austen was probably making fun of the gothic genre by writing about a so called spooky estate, but I wanted some ghosts or something man! I also wasn’t really a fan of any of the characters in this book including the main character. The whole book was about her being naive and I’m not really down for that. For example, she basically accuses this man who kindly invites her to his estate of murdering his wife with zero evidence simply because she let her imagination run wild and has read a few mystery novels. The only part I was slightly invested in was the love story and I felt that that was barely even a part of the book. Overall, this was a short simple read but it didn’t do much for me.