Persuasion (Book Review)

This is my first Jane Austen book, and I doubt it will be my last. There isn't a lick of adventure or sensationalism in its pages, and yet it still kept me wanting more.

Jane Austen can write out a sentence like few I know can. As a result, plot aside, her writing style is witty and fun to pick at. But the plot, although a simple one, delivers as well. She excellently brings out the subtleties of social situations and awkwardness of feelings we can all relate to in a way that makes me squirm.

My guess is that with virtually any romantic relationship in existence today, there was always, once, the in-between stage where you don't know if things will work out or not. Persuasion, is about that stage--it's ecstatic highs, lows, jealousies, misunderstandings, good and bad timings, the single person's worry about one's age, the busybodies--and it's about so much more. This may be a tough read for some, but force your way through the first few chapters to get hooked in. If before you, like I, minimized this to being a 'woman's novel' (whatever that means), I'm glad to say you were wonderfully misinformed.

5/5