MixedI just found it quite slow. And I don't feel like for a novel where someone like falls off of some steps, cracks their head, and like is sort of put in rendered coma toes. I don't feel like very much happened.
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Persuasion (1789)
Others: Mostly positive Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, after the Napoleonic Wars come to an end. The story is set in 1814. The book itself is Jane Austen's last published book, published posthumously in December of 1818.
- ISBN:
- 9781513137438
- Length:
- 268 pages
Genres: romance, historical fiction
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Mixed
Loved itMaybe Persuasion. I reread Persuasion this year. This kind of made me happy.
Loved itone of our picks was persuasion by Jane Austin and we were reading that alongside contemporary romances like honey and spice because it is just as relevant today as it was when Jane Austin first wrote it
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Loved itthe pining between these two characters is just you just can't put it down because of it but having read it persuasion has become one of my favorite Jane Austin novels
Loved itpersuasion which I think is one of her most impressive Works in terms of its character study and how emotive it is it's a second chance romance
Loved iti adore this book i love anne i love captain wentworth and i really think the message in this that you have to make up your own mind and go with your heart is one that i really love
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Mixedpersuasion and northanger abbey i thought were okay completely fine enjoyed reading them but they didn't didn't really grab me
Loved itI loved everything about persuasion I loved how everything played out
Mixedthen I read persuasion by Jane Austin which I gave like a 3.5 out of five Stars three 3.5 kind of in between that guess 3.25 out of five stars
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