Pride and Prejudice book review

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Review by Mayte Van den Broeck
4.5 stars

I first picked this book up because i wanted to start reading some classics, and guessed that this was a good place to start. I believe that it was.
This novel is about a family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters. Mrs. Bennet's goal is to marry off each of her daughters to eligible young men. The story is mostly focused on the civilised, comic sparring between The rich eligible bachelor mr. Darcy and the witty young woman named ms. Elizabeth.
Since this is the first novel of this style and age that I have read, I might be a bit unknowing and biased in my review. In the beginning of the book, it took a few chapters to get used to the writing style, though after that when i got the hang of it, it read fluidly, and I really started enjoying it. Most of the characters I really liked, and were each unique and interesting. The relationships were also changing all the time which was intriguing. Some of the characters were of varying degrees of annoying. Though Jane Austen easily turned the annoyance into humor in many cases. Overall, I very much enjoyed this book, and am determined to read more of this kind. Books which I might suggest which seem similar to this are Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, or Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.