Fanny Price, the heroine from this novel, is the biggest drawback to the story in my view. She is the sort of woman with whom I have never had much in common. She is insufferably sweet, eternally turning cheeks, and almost totally incapable of speaking her mind if she is in disagreement with others. In short...she is the ultimate in "goodness." It felt plastic to me.For whatever criticisms I have of Fanny Price, I cannot deny that the reader is forced, throughout the novel, to wish her well. I truly yearned with my full heart for Fanny to get the life and love and attention that she so heartily deserved.The story, though not as funny as Pride & Prejudice, is quite entertaining with little twists in the plot that one doesn't necessarily see coming and with an ending that really could've gone either way.I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I'll probably read it again, and I would definitely recommend it to any true Austen fan.