Scan barcode
A review by maggiebook
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3.0
Good characters and a somewhat engaging story. Seems very apparent this isn't a 100% Jane Austen novel but it was enjoyable ... just not the expected Austen standard.
As stated the story was engaging but slow. I didn't care for the narrator addressing the reader directly. It really pulled me out of the story and setting. The story also went gothic a couple of times which seemed out of place.
The characters were well written and their personalities were revealed through their own words and actions which I think Jane Austen does extremely well.
The biggest disappointment for me was the ending which seemed very anticlimactic and thrown together. Instead of continuing the story to the end you just got a summary of what happened.
As stated the story was engaging but slow. I didn't care for the narrator addressing the reader directly. It really pulled me out of the story and setting. The story also went gothic a couple of times which seemed out of place.
The characters were well written and their personalities were revealed through their own words and actions which I think Jane Austen does extremely well.
The biggest disappointment for me was the ending which seemed very anticlimactic and thrown together. Instead of continuing the story to the end you just got a summary of what happened.