Julia Barrett: The Third Sister

I was bored the other day and looked through the books in my room, hoping that in a miraculous way I would find something I hadn't already read. I managed to find The Third Sister by Julia Barrett. As a note says on the first page, I got it as a present for my 18th birthday from one of my friends. Now that was not yesterday (unfortunately) so I didn't have to worry about remembering the details. (As it turned out, I didn't remember a thing about the storyline, in fact, I start to doubt that I had ever read it). The book is supposed to be the continuation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and the writer indeed does a good job imitating Austen's style, and the usual structure of her stories. Generally speaking I like Jane Austen's works and I liked this book, too. But at the same time they make me smile. I couldn't help but think of how if they were set in the present, most of the big-big problems could be avoided by a phone call, an e-mail, or even a text massage: "Don't trust him, he's evil. Choose the other one." Of course, it would kill all the excitement.