A review by sklus
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

4.0

Listen, I fully understand why the book ended the way it did. Marianne and Colonel Brandon were equals because they’d both had their hearts broken by their first love, and she was 18 instead of 16 now so it’s less creepy that he was thirty something. And it’s ironic that Elinor married her first and only love, but Marianne falls in love again despite insisting you can only fall in love once. Yeah yeah I get it. But Colonel Brandon should have married Elinor. 1) It’s creepy that Marianne reminds him of his ward (or maybe his first love I don’t really remember which is which). 2) She was 16 when he “fell in love with her”. 3) He spends the whole book talking to Elinor, helping Elinor, and worrying about Marianne (for Elinor’s sake I would like to argue). I can’t remember him having a single conversation with Marianne alone. You’re telling me, Miss Jane Austen, that a man who had his heart broken by an immature but beautiful young girl would fall in love with another immature but beautiful young girl, instead of her older sister who is more kind, selfless, and compassionate. And who also was not 16 when they met!

Anyway, it was a great book and would get 5 stars if I wasn’t mad at Colonel Brandon.