I was expecting one the characters to actually try to persuade the other that they should be a couple again and that this story was how they persuade the other. The only persuasion came at the end of the story in a sweet love letter. This whole story felt really long, uneventful for the most part, and could have been much shorter if the two characters actually shared a meaningful conversation about their past history earlier in the story.

This was not my favorite Jane Austen, and while I’m glad that I read it, it is not one that I would read again. Persuasion just felt unfinished and needing some more work to get it to my expected Jane Austen caliber of writing.