Modern Persuasion 21st Century Austen Book 1 eBook Sara Marks
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Which would you pick the person you love or your own dreams?
What would you do if given a second chance at that decision?
Eight years ago Emma Shaw picked her career and family over the man she loved, Fredrick Wentworth. Since then she has built a career in publishing and spends her free time making sure her father and sisters are taken care of. Fredrick has spent the same years building his career as a screenwriter under increasing public scrutiny as a celebrity. When the editor of Fredrick’s first book is injured, Emma is forced to travel with Fredrick on his book tour.
Tension builds for the two former lovers over the course of the tour. Emma and Fredrick must face their emotional baggage and their misunderstanding about how their break-up impacted the other. Will they be able to find their way back together for a second chance at love?
Modern Persuasion 21st Century Austen Book 1 eBook Sara Marks
It's been a while since I read a book in less than five hours and quite frankly, I couldn't place "Modern Persuasion" down the moment I started reading it.This is a classic love story full of ups and downs and inner turmoils - with a helpful hint of social commentary. Emma is a reknown editor working for an important publishing company and has recently come face-to-face with her ex, a man she rejected who is now a well-off screenwriter. The two are forced to work together for a book tour, which inevitably leads Emma to remember what brought them once together and reconsider what forced them apart. Sara Marks not only does a beautiful job of paying homage to the brilliant English novelist, Jane Austen, but she also crafts a heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking tale of second chances, love, friendship, and family.
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Modern Persuasion 21st Century Austen Book 1 eBook Sara Marks Reviews
I finished Modern Persuasion in 2 days. I had to fit it in between kids and pets, but I did it! It is a great story of second chances in so many ways. Not just in love, but in life. We make choices that are good for 'right now;' but, they are often wrong for the rest of our lives. Emma has the chance to look in the mirror and start to focus on herself. Not her job, not her needy family, but just focus on herself and what she wants. It was a wonderful retelling of Persuasion but you could absolutely enjoy Modern Persuasion without having read its inspiration.
I started this book as the least likely person in the room to read a romance novel. Modern Persuasion didn't change that. I have no prior connection to it's inspiration (having never read an Austen novel in my life) and have never completed a romance novel outside of literature class. It's not my thing.
That said, Modern Persuasion didn't set out to make me a romance reader. It set out to be enjoyable, relatable, and cathartic. It succeeds.
I don't know the first thing about Persuasion, so I'll talk about Modern Persuasion not as a variation, but as it's own work. In terms of writing, it's quite enjoyable. It's written in a clear, engaging style, and the story moves along at a quick pace. It's the kind of book that gets to the point, but doesn't need a long presentation to feel complete.
The story deals with a pair of former lovers being forced to work together. In doing so, they must also confront their regrets and re-evaluate their pasts. It features lots of behind-the-scenes information on the publishing industry, all presented with a the comfortable confidence of a good researcher. This author knows her stuff, and I thought the details regarding the industry itself added lots of tone and flavor to the story. It's one of my favorite parts!
The main character, Emma Shaw, is not the type of protagonist I usually prefer. That said, by the end of the book, I was crossing my fingers and grinding my teeth for her. She's got a strong narrative voice, and the reader has a clear idea of who she is early on confident, professional, and totally sick of everyone's drama. She initially struck me as bossy and overbearing, but there's a richness to her Throughout the story, we see Emma's vulnerabilities and insecurities bubble to the surface, but never in a way that makes her feel weak or too heavily deconstructed. Most importantly, Emma is starkly relatable. Though we may not be high profile players in the publishing world, we've probably all shared some of her anxieties. We may have had too much to drink at dinner and told our whole family what we thought about them, or said something embarrassingly stupid while trying to break an awkward silence, or even just stared at a letter from a lost loved one and cried. Emma's story, while perhaps far removed from many of our lives, is filled with familiar moments. Those moments are where the writing shines through the best.
I'm not sure I'd want to know Emma in real life, but I certainly enjoyed reading about her. Any criticisms I might have are products of the genre and perhaps the source material. As an adaptation, it's hard for me to rate it. As an independent read, especially in a genre that I generally don't touch....it's a treat. My greatest criticism lies in the irritating personalities of Emma's family and other supporting characters, but this is by design. Emma is tired of them, too. She's ready for something else.
Will she get it? You should read and find out.
Just finished reading "Modern Persuasion" by Sara Marks. It's a retelling of "Persuasion" by Jane Austen. I haven't read Persuasion in quite a while, but still remember it well from my college English classes. This was such a well done version of it.
I simply loved this book. Finished it in one sitting just now and I laughed a lot and teared up quite a bit. I understood Emma and really felt like I knew her. Hell, there's quite a bit of me that IS her. Plus, it being set in the publishing world made it even more familiar. It was beautifully told, so massive kudos to the author.
Sara Marks' "Modern Persuasion" is in good company. Just as she takes off on Jane Austen, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was also an updated take, as described on Wikipedia "The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both". Although "Modern Persuasion" is neither as tragic nor as literary, one of its many charms is that it revivifies memory of classic Austen--and sends you back to it. The best books often do that, as Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" recently echoed Virginia Woolf's novel, "Mrs. Dalloway". Another charm of "Modern Persuasion" is that it turns our understanding of being "modern" inside out. We may be up-to-date with text messaging, but the way these messages become graphics and counterpoint to the dialogue in "Modern Persuasion" echoes Jane Austen's original irony, when the constrained manners and speech of the characters are belied by their real desires. And Marks has her own ironies In the tale of publishing and writers, one expects to hear about "writing styles"--but not about "editing" styles, as in this brilliant understatement "Maybe she just recognized my editing style". Meanwhile, our cellphone (and smartwatch) life is documented with unself-conscious aplomb "I still hadn't taken my phone off 'do not disturb' so I missed calls from Mary and Louise. Even Freddy put his phone on silent eventually. We weren't ready for the rest of the world". This novel begs the question of whether we readers, who constitute the rest of the world, are also ready to put our social selves on 'do not disturb' long enough to silently read this infectious postmodern work.
It's been a while since I read a book in less than five hours and quite frankly, I couldn't place "Modern Persuasion" down the moment I started reading it.
This is a classic love story full of ups and downs and inner turmoils - with a helpful hint of social commentary. Emma is a reknown editor working for an important publishing company and has recently come face-to-face with her ex, a man she rejected who is now a well-off screenwriter. The two are forced to work together for a book tour, which inevitably leads Emma to remember what brought them once together and reconsider what forced them apart. Sara Marks not only does a beautiful job of paying homage to the brilliant English novelist, Jane Austen, but she also crafts a heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking tale of second chances, love, friendship, and family.
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