Entertaining the Alien

14. Persuasion, Jane Austen

I think Mer has said this is her favorite Jane Austen book. I get that. I so get that. What a marvelous book! Austen really was a brilliant satirist, to the point that she manages to even poke fun of her hero and heroine without losing any of the romantic impact. And what romantic impact! Maybe it's because I'm closer to Anne Elliot's age than to Elizabeth Bennett's, but I was much more drawn in to this story.

I admit, I'm a little puzzled by the last paragraph, which essentially seemed to say that they all lived happily ever after, except for being afraid that a war would start. It seems an odd way to end the story, as if she couldn't resist throwing that in to keep it from being a completely happy ending.

In any case, definitely worth a reread, and definitely a book I'd like to own at some point.