Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ was so painfully uneventful. It follows a pair of lovesick sisters, Marianne and Elinor Dashwood, as they navigate upper class marriage. I tried to give Austen another chance as I believed she must be popular for a reason, but her works really aren’t for me. Every character felt the same, there was no sense of setting and the sisters place their entire worth on marriage. For a moment towards the end I saw some character arc and redemption, Marianne finding her voice, but that was snatched away in pages and she returned to the hollow protagonist she was throughout the whole book. The story seemed solely to be a series of conversations by identical in personality upper class couples about marriage that came to no such satisfying conclusion. Austen’s works are for some people, but seeing no difference between ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in each of their lack of plot and characterisation, she just isn’t my sort of writing.