Sense & Sensibility

I feel very lukewarm and quite frustrated towards this book. It's a straightforward, not very original update of Austen's novel. What I love about the original is that Austen conveys the emotions of the characters in such a subtle way. Unfortunately I feel like Trollope fails at this and the characters end up annoying and insipid. Add to this the feeling that the social media references were written by someone who has little concept of the modern world and a Margaret Dashwood talking slang that dates the book immediately and what I got was a big pile of disappointment. If I hadn't read the original I might have found it an instantly forgettable romance, as it was I don't think that it really deserves to have Jane Austen's name on it.