Honestly I couldn't finish this book and I've been reading it so long that I don't think I'll ever finish reading it. It's a new year. I deserve to read something fresh.

The parts of the book that I did read, I enjoyed. It was when Mr. Crawford was rejected by Fanny that seriously ended my enjoyment. Yeah, I get it. You got rejected. Why is there five chapters to talk about how Sir Thomas felt about this situation? How is that at all relevant to the rest of the novel.

I think the only good of this book was providing an outline for BBC to make a movie out of it. Seriously, the movie is better than the book and it's only loosely based on it.

But I did like Fanny, which seems like an unpopular opinion on these reviews. She was young and naive and really thrown through some extreme emotional loop that she should have been spared. Her kindness and modest behavior is only a symptom of her growing up in a household where she was constantly put down and made to feel like an inconvenience than family.

I don't think that this novel will deter me from reading any other Jane Austen, but you're going to need get me in the mood for reading anything similar to that writing style in the near future.