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Book Review By Kerry Patriarche
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

While spending a season in a resort town, an unremarkable young woman learns to mistrust her fiction stimulated prejudices and use her mind and heart, both on her own and under the hero's tutelage, so demurely and adorably that he is compelled to love her. They marry.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 1600-1899
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Lover is

Main Character
Gender - Female
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric:
How sensitive is this character?
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
City? Yes
City: - wealthy
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting

Writing Style
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only
Weird Victorian/Shakespearean English? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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