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A review by camscornerbooks
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5.0
In my teens I swore I would never read Jane Austen and for sure never Pride & Prejudice. I assumed her writing would be too flowery and still have nothing to say on topics that did not interest me. I realized 20 years later, with book in hand, how ironic my prejudiced assumptions were before I ever tried reading it.
So in about 3 sittings in a week I finished it. I really really liked it. Im not sure if I loved it, but maybe I did. There were multiple times I closed the book, held it to my forehead, and either smiled at how much I relished a
particular character or grimaced at how much I hated one. Not-so-spoilers: I love Mr. Bennet and I cannot stand Mr. Collins….
I was honestly surprised at how well the story flowed. I was expecting a full on enemies-to-lovers take where misunderstanding would plague both sides and they would fully detest each other the entire book until the last 5 pages and some miraculous revelation would solve it all in a completely unbelievable way. I was happy to be wrong and to watch the story unfold with, of course, some misunderstandings but far more believable than many books use, and to see the uncovering of feelings and the revelations that happened over the course of the book instead of in just the very last chapter. I also was not expecting much, if any, character growth but again I was wrong and honestly it was probably the most well written that I have come across. Instead of falling in love with someone’s negative qualities, or falling in love in spite of them, each character genuinely looked at themselves honestly and realized that they had things that they should change about themselves and how they viewed and treated others.
To read a book with some of the most believably realistic characters was unexpected but to have my own assumptions so completely decimated was an even bigger treat. The more I think about it, the more I think I really did love this book…
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Oh and thanks to Emma’s vlogs on YouTube (emmie on that platform) for speaking highly of this book and igniting my interest in finally reading it.
So in about 3 sittings in a week I finished it. I really really liked it. Im not sure if I loved it, but maybe I did. There were multiple times I closed the book, held it to my forehead, and either smiled at how much I relished a
particular character or grimaced at how much I hated one. Not-so-spoilers: I love Mr. Bennet and I cannot stand Mr. Collins….
I was honestly surprised at how well the story flowed. I was expecting a full on enemies-to-lovers take where misunderstanding would plague both sides and they would fully detest each other the entire book until the last 5 pages and some miraculous revelation would solve it all in a completely unbelievable way. I was happy to be wrong and to watch the story unfold with, of course, some misunderstandings but far more believable than many books use, and to see the uncovering of feelings and the revelations that happened over the course of the book instead of in just the very last chapter. I also was not expecting much, if any, character growth but again I was wrong and honestly it was probably the most well written that I have come across. Instead of falling in love with someone’s negative qualities, or falling in love in spite of them, each character genuinely looked at themselves honestly and realized that they had things that they should change about themselves and how they viewed and treated others.
To read a book with some of the most believably realistic characters was unexpected but to have my own assumptions so completely decimated was an even bigger treat. The more I think about it, the more I think I really did love this book…
———————
Oh and thanks to Emma’s vlogs on YouTube (emmie on that platform) for speaking highly of this book and igniting my interest in finally reading it.