Persuasion

Title: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: Classic, Romance
Spice: 0 / 5
Format: Kindle
Pages: 149
Reason Read: Book Club
Rating:

My Thoughts

I didn’t really care for any of the characters, except Anne and Captain Wentworth. I hated Anne’s family from the beginning, especially Mary. Even though Mary paid more attention to Anne than anyone, her personality grated on my nerves, even more so than Mrs. Bennett who’s one of my all-time least favorite characters. I liked the Musgroves okay, but I wasn’t really attached to them. And, Louisa bugged me. I mean, come on, who really suffers a concussion that completely alters oneself just from a fall being jumped down the stairs? That was the most idiotic thing I think I’ve ever read in my life! Seriously!

It wasn’t until Anne went to Bath that I really started to enjoy the story in PERSUASION–well beyond the halfway mark. At that point, I started to want to read more than a chapter at a time and wanted to know how things ended. The story really got interesting with the introduction of Mr. Eliot, even though I didn’t really like him. (I was suspicious of him like Anne was.) The little bit of a love triangle in the story surprisingly didn’t bother me because it made the story more interesting. I loved Captain Wentworth’s letter at the end. It was, by far, my favorite part of the whole book. In the end, I didn’t love PERSUASION, but I didn’t hate it either.