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21st Century Austen #5
Echoes of Love
Anna Eliot adored the gorgeous Felix Wentworth, but still called an end to their relationship. As time passes, Anna wonders if strict parents, interfering friends and misplaced loyalties had more to do with it than she wants to admit …
Two years later, Felix, who’s been fighting in Afghanistan, is back. Anna longs to rekindle their relationship – but will he give her a second chance? Or will the echoes of the past prove too difficult to overcome?
An evocative tale of the perils of listening to others, instead of your own heart.
Two years later, Felix, who’s been fighting in Afghanistan, is back. Anna longs to rekindle their relationship – but will he give her a second chance? Or will the echoes of the past prove too difficult to overcome?
An evocative tale of the perils of listening to others, instead of your own heart.
228 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Rosie Rushton
116 books59 followersRosie Rushton began her career as a feature writer for a local paper. Staying Cool, Surviving School was her first book, published by Piccadilly Press in 1993. After writing another non-fiction title, You’re My Best Friend, I Hate You! (available from Puffin), Rosie turned to fiction.
The Leehampton series
Best Friends
Best Friends Together (1998)
Best Friends Getting Sorted (1999)
Best Friends in Love (1999)
What A Week series
21st century Austen
The Secrets of Love (2005)
Summer of Secrets (2007)
Secret Schemes and Daring Dreams (2008)
Love, Lies and Lizzie (2009)
Echoes of Love (2010)
Whatever Love Is (2012)
Other books
Staying Cool, Surviving School (1993)
You're My Best Friend - I Hate You! (1994)
Poppy (1996)
Olivia (1997)
Sophie (1998)
Melissa (1998)
Jessica (2000)
Life Line (1999)
PS He’s Mine (2000)
Break Point (2001)
Tell Me I’m OK, really (2001)
Last Seen Wearing Trainers (2002)
All Change! (2000)
Fall Out! (2002)
Waving Not Drowning (2003)
Friends, Enemies and Other Tiny Problems (2003)
The Leehampton series
Best Friends
Best Friends Together (1998)
Best Friends Getting Sorted (1999)
Best Friends in Love (1999)
What A Week series
21st century Austen
The Secrets of Love (2005)
Summer of Secrets (2007)
Secret Schemes and Daring Dreams (2008)
Love, Lies and Lizzie (2009)
Echoes of Love (2010)
Whatever Love Is (2012)
Other books
Staying Cool, Surviving School (1993)
You're My Best Friend - I Hate You! (1994)
Poppy (1996)
Olivia (1997)
Sophie (1998)
Melissa (1998)
Jessica (2000)
Life Line (1999)
PS He’s Mine (2000)
Break Point (2001)
Tell Me I’m OK, really (2001)
Last Seen Wearing Trainers (2002)
All Change! (2000)
Fall Out! (2002)
Waving Not Drowning (2003)
Friends, Enemies and Other Tiny Problems (2003)
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October 17, 2020
One of my favourite 21st century Austen books. Looking forward to reading Persuasion now.
March 28, 2011
Anna is the daughter of Walter Elliot, a washed up has-been TV personality. Walter has been out of work for over a year and has refused to curb his lifestyle, which has caused major financial difficulties for the Elliot’s. Family friend Marina has convinced Walter to move rent-free into an apartment near the marina where he can “house-sit” for her friends, while a nice couple pays to rent out the family estate. Marina begins telling Anna about the couple that is going to be renting out the house when Anna suddenly gets the feeling that she’s heard of them before. Turns out the couple renting the house are the aunt and uncle of Felix Wentworth, the love of Anna’s life. All would be well with their being there, except for the fact that Anna’s family came between her and Felix two years earlier, tearing them apart. Anna comes to learn that Felix is going to be visiting them for the summer while he is on leave from the military, and sees that she might have a chance to win him back if she can prove her love and remorse. Will she be able to convince him that there has never been anyone but him for her, and that her family will never make her decisions for her again?
Echoes of Love is the fifth book in the 21st Century Austen series by Rosie Rushton. The series takes Jane Austen’s novels and turns them into contemporary teen romance stories, with Echoes of Love being based on Persuasion. Rushton is also well known for her other teen series The Leehampton Series, Best Friends, and What a Week. Echoes of Love does a great job at making Persuasion relevant to the social issues of today. I think it was an interesting twist to make Felix black and Anna white. Bi-racial relationships are still sometimes tough sells to some people, and it was nice to see it accepted here. And what a great twist to make Felix a soldier in Afghanistan! So many people in today’s society are dating/engaged/married to a soldier and it was interesting to see it represented here. The personal struggle Anna had with saying goodbye to him when he left for training and boot camp and her response when she found out that he had been injured were definitely relatable for many today.
My biggest complaint with the book would probably have been the Wentworth “you pierce my soul” letter. It’s missing. Anyone who has read Persuasion knows that the letter is the standout part of the novel. I was all anticipation to find out whether or not Rushton was going to include it in her novel, and when I finally got to it I was a bit let down. I guess since it was a teen related book I shouldn’t have expected something as stunning and heartfelt as an adult’s love letter, but I hoped anyway!
I’m a huge fan of turning Austen’s novels into ones geared towards teens. Rushton does a great job at bringing Persuasion to a more mature teen audience. The book takes place in Europe, where the drinking age is 18, so many of the characters meet at bars and drink wine and beers. There are also some sexual innuendo’s made, which might make some parents uncomfortable about their younger teens reading the book. This young, hip, fresh take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion is sure to have the teen in your family clamoring for Austen’s originals.
Kimberly (Reflections of a Book Addict)
http://lifeand100books.wordpress.com/...
Echoes of Love is the fifth book in the 21st Century Austen series by Rosie Rushton. The series takes Jane Austen’s novels and turns them into contemporary teen romance stories, with Echoes of Love being based on Persuasion. Rushton is also well known for her other teen series The Leehampton Series, Best Friends, and What a Week. Echoes of Love does a great job at making Persuasion relevant to the social issues of today. I think it was an interesting twist to make Felix black and Anna white. Bi-racial relationships are still sometimes tough sells to some people, and it was nice to see it accepted here. And what a great twist to make Felix a soldier in Afghanistan! So many people in today’s society are dating/engaged/married to a soldier and it was interesting to see it represented here. The personal struggle Anna had with saying goodbye to him when he left for training and boot camp and her response when she found out that he had been injured were definitely relatable for many today.
My biggest complaint with the book would probably have been the Wentworth “you pierce my soul” letter. It’s missing. Anyone who has read Persuasion knows that the letter is the standout part of the novel. I was all anticipation to find out whether or not Rushton was going to include it in her novel, and when I finally got to it I was a bit let down. I guess since it was a teen related book I shouldn’t have expected something as stunning and heartfelt as an adult’s love letter, but I hoped anyway!
I’m a huge fan of turning Austen’s novels into ones geared towards teens. Rushton does a great job at bringing Persuasion to a more mature teen audience. The book takes place in Europe, where the drinking age is 18, so many of the characters meet at bars and drink wine and beers. There are also some sexual innuendo’s made, which might make some parents uncomfortable about their younger teens reading the book. This young, hip, fresh take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion is sure to have the teen in your family clamoring for Austen’s originals.
Kimberly (Reflections of a Book Addict)
http://lifeand100books.wordpress.com/...
November 8, 2023
Anna Eliot is regretting her decision to spurn the affections of Felix Wentworth. Was she too easily persuaded by her father and their erstwhile family friend Marina Russell? How will she adjust to her family’s enforced move from Hampton House to Sovereign Harbour? Will her father be able to rein in his spending habits? Is her friend Shannon Smith a better judge of Anna’s love life than Anna herself? And wouldn’t everything be so much easier if only her mother were still alive?
If these storylines have a familiar ring, it’s because Echoes of Love is Rosie Rushton’s modern take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. It is the fifth in Rushton's 21st Century Austen adaptations series.
While not all of Rushton’s characters have direct parallels to Austen’s originals, many do. Most successfully, Rushton captures the vacuity and vanity of Austen’s Sir Walter Elliot in the person of Anna’s father, also named Walter, and in the Hampton House tenants, the Crofts, who are broad-minded world travellers – he an anthropologist and she an artist. (In Persuasion, Mrs Croft accompanied her husband, Admiral Croft, on his naval voyages.) In place of Captain Frederick Wentworth, Ruston creates Felix Wentworth, a Royal Marine serving in Afghanistan, and she alerts readers to the political divisiveness created by Britain’s participation in that conflict.
In Echoes of Love readers – like Sir Walter Elliot reaching for his copy of the Baronetage – might find ‘occupation for an idle hour’ in this light-hearted take on Austen’s Persuasion.
My copy of this book was provided by the Western Australian journal Fiction Focus: New Books for Teenagers. A version of my review was published in Fiction Focus 24(4) 2010.
If these storylines have a familiar ring, it’s because Echoes of Love is Rosie Rushton’s modern take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. It is the fifth in Rushton's 21st Century Austen adaptations series.
While not all of Rushton’s characters have direct parallels to Austen’s originals, many do. Most successfully, Rushton captures the vacuity and vanity of Austen’s Sir Walter Elliot in the person of Anna’s father, also named Walter, and in the Hampton House tenants, the Crofts, who are broad-minded world travellers – he an anthropologist and she an artist. (In Persuasion, Mrs Croft accompanied her husband, Admiral Croft, on his naval voyages.) In place of Captain Frederick Wentworth, Ruston creates Felix Wentworth, a Royal Marine serving in Afghanistan, and she alerts readers to the political divisiveness created by Britain’s participation in that conflict.
In Echoes of Love readers – like Sir Walter Elliot reaching for his copy of the Baronetage – might find ‘occupation for an idle hour’ in this light-hearted take on Austen’s Persuasion.
My copy of this book was provided by the Western Australian journal Fiction Focus: New Books for Teenagers. A version of my review was published in Fiction Focus 24(4) 2010.
August 10, 2018
Let me start by saying that Persuasion is my favourite Austen novel and when I found out that my library's Overdrive collection includes a modern-day adaptation of the story, I immediately included it in my wish list. The best part about Persuasion is its focus on second chances at love and the maturity of its characters. Anne has to overcome her sense of duty and reach out towards what she really wants while Captain Wentworth has to understand the circumstances under which she made her decision all those years ago and learn to forgive her.
That said, perhaps it is unfair to compare Echoes of Love, in my opinion, to one of the most enduring love stories ever written. But when an author is writing an adaptation of a classic, comparisons are inevitable.
While Austen's story endures, it is also woefully behind in terms of representation. This is where Echoes of Love triumphs. It's portrayal of a POC protagonist in Wentworth and by extension, his family, and a person with a disability in Shannon Smith enables the story to be modern and more inclusive than the original. However, the author spent so much time describing Anna and Felix's first turn at a relationship and the ensuing fall out in so much detail that it takes up nearly 75% of the book. What I wanted to read was how they'd find their way back to each other, what would lead them there, and if possible, a new insight into their psyche. Not many authors can succeed at this and I can only think of one, PD James's sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Death Comes to Pemberley.
I would recommend this story for YA readers as an introduction to Austen's story. Read Echoes of Love and if you like it, read Persuasion, which I think has the best love letter in the entire English literary canon.
That said, perhaps it is unfair to compare Echoes of Love, in my opinion, to one of the most enduring love stories ever written. But when an author is writing an adaptation of a classic, comparisons are inevitable.
While Austen's story endures, it is also woefully behind in terms of representation. This is where Echoes of Love triumphs. It's portrayal of a POC protagonist in Wentworth and by extension, his family, and a person with a disability in Shannon Smith enables the story to be modern and more inclusive than the original. However, the author spent so much time describing Anna and Felix's first turn at a relationship and the ensuing fall out in so much detail that it takes up nearly 75% of the book. What I wanted to read was how they'd find their way back to each other, what would lead them there, and if possible, a new insight into their psyche. Not many authors can succeed at this and I can only think of one, PD James's sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Death Comes to Pemberley.
I would recommend this story for YA readers as an introduction to Austen's story. Read Echoes of Love and if you like it, read Persuasion, which I think has the best love letter in the entire English literary canon.
November 14, 2025
Retelling in chiave moderna di Persuasione (anche se non tanto attuale, visto che le persone comunicano via mail e non esistono gli smartphone e quindi neanche Whatsapp. Del resto, è del 2010).
La storia si legge piacevolmente, ma il retelling è incentrato per una buona metà sugli eventi del passato, che sono non poco complicati, perché Felix Wentworth è un giovane ragazzo di colore che spera di entrare nell'esercito, mentre Anne è figlia di un conduttore televisivo snob e un vanesio (naturalmente anche un filo razzista), mentre la madre di Felix è un'attivista politica che protesta su tutto e non è mai voluta andare in trasmissione da Walter Eliot, mentre poi, quando finalmente ci va, succede un patatrac.
I vari personaggi di Persuasione ci sono grosso modo tutti, forse anche qualcuno di più, ma sono tutti un po' agglomerati nella prima e nell'ultima parte del racconto (ovvero il presente) e spesso compaiono anche in momenti diversi rispetto a Persuasione, per cui è anche difficile riconoscerli e distinguerli. Per esempio, anche se l'amica di Anne, Shannon è su una sedia a rotelle, ho capito che era il corrispettivo di Mrs. Smith solo quando le rivela cose su un altro personaggio (l'equivalente di Mr. Elliot). Anche perché, a parte qualche eccezione, Rushton ha cambiato nome a buona parte dei personaggi. I temi affrontati sono tanti: il razzismo, l'Alzheimer (il padre di Felix ne soffre) e la spietatezza di alcuni personaggi televisivi, tuttavia questo non è stato decisamente il mio romanzo preferito della serie.
La storia si legge piacevolmente, ma il retelling è incentrato per una buona metà sugli eventi del passato, che sono non poco complicati, perché Felix Wentworth è un giovane ragazzo di colore che spera di entrare nell'esercito, mentre Anne è figlia di un conduttore televisivo snob e un vanesio (naturalmente anche un filo razzista), mentre la madre di Felix è un'attivista politica che protesta su tutto e non è mai voluta andare in trasmissione da Walter Eliot, mentre poi, quando finalmente ci va, succede un patatrac.
I vari personaggi di Persuasione ci sono grosso modo tutti, forse anche qualcuno di più, ma sono tutti un po' agglomerati nella prima e nell'ultima parte del racconto (ovvero il presente) e spesso compaiono anche in momenti diversi rispetto a Persuasione, per cui è anche difficile riconoscerli e distinguerli. Per esempio, anche se l'amica di Anne, Shannon è su una sedia a rotelle, ho capito che era il corrispettivo di Mrs. Smith solo quando le rivela cose su un altro personaggio (l'equivalente di Mr. Elliot). Anche perché, a parte qualche eccezione, Rushton ha cambiato nome a buona parte dei personaggi. I temi affrontati sono tanti: il razzismo, l'Alzheimer (il padre di Felix ne soffre) e la spietatezza di alcuni personaggi televisivi, tuttavia questo non è stato decisamente il mio romanzo preferito della serie.
March 14, 2014
I really like this book, no, I love it! I've just read the original 'Persuasion' before reading this one, as it is adapted from it. You know I just wanted to know the real story before I read the adaption, and usually people say that the original is a lot better. Well in this case, it is not true. This was a lot more interesting and a lot more romantic! Anna is definitally in love, and Felix is one of the sweetest guys I've ever read in a book, and he was in love too, so it just made the perfect story!
To be honest I did look for similarities between Echoes of Love and Persuasion, and there were many, but there were many differences too, obviously, as Echoes of Love is set in the 21st century, so it was bound to be differnt in many ways, such there is no heir who inherits the estate, and there is no such thing as beneicial marriage at a young age without being in love, no, there isn't even a relationship without two people being in love or fancying one and another, and so on, and so on.
But I was satisfied with the whole story, even though Anna and Felix didn't meet again until the 165th page, which is way over the middle of the book! However, I was informed of their relationship before they broke up, and that was very romantic too!
So these two were my favourite scenes;
Sence numebr #1;
'This much better,' Hugo repeated. In an instant he had spun her round to face him and was kissing her hungrily on the lips. It took Anna by suprise, but for a moment she responded, telling herself that maybe this was the way to get Felix out of her head and her heart once and for all, since single or not, he clearly had not time for her.
...
'Hugo no! she gasped.
'Come off it,' he muttered 'You know you want...' As his hand moved lower, she stamped on his foot with her heel and turned and run.
...
As she pushed open the front door, she saw a letter lying on the doormat. The writing on the envelope was unmistakable - it was from Felix.
She was ripping it open when her mobile beeped wih a text message. That too was from Felix.
Forget what I said in the letter. You've obviously found someone else.
Her heart racing she started to read.
Hi. I can't stand this any longer. I'm due back at my unit in ten days when my physio's finished and who knows where they'll send me? I love you, Anna.
Anna gasped out loud - and then glanced back at the message on the mobile still in her hand.
I never stopped loving you, the letter went on. Even when I was angry about all that stuff with your dad and you, I never stoped loving you. I tried to - I even tried to fancy Louisa, but nice as she is it was always you that I thought about. And then that day when you turned up at Charlie's place and fell on your face, that's when I knew I still wanted you. Please, say we can try again? Please?
...
There was no stamp on the letter. It had been hand delivered. Which meant Felix had been here. Could he have seen her and Hugo? Outside? Just now?
...
She grabbed her mobile. You've got it all wrong. I love you u only u. Where r u?
...
She found him sitting staring disconsolately into a pint.
'Felix!'
He started, and stared at her. 'I don't want to hear it,' he said, standing up and trying to push past her.
'Felix listen,' she urged. 'You don't get it.'
'Oh I get it,' he said. 'I saw it with my own eyes. You - and that jerk, Hugo. Kissing.'
'Please you have to believe me, I didn't want him to,' she said. 'He -'
'Come off it,' Felix said. 'Are you trying to tell me you gave him no encouragement at all? What do you think I am? Dumb?'
'OK, OK, please just let me say this, and then - well, then it's up to you.'
He said nothing, but he didn't move.
'OK, for just a moment, I thought that if I - you know, kissed him, it might help me forget you. Because I thought you didn't want me and that going out with someone else would help me move on. But it didn't work, because there is only one person I want to kiss, and that's you.'
'Say that again.'
'The only person I want to kiss is you.'
Slowly, very slowly, Felix stretched out a hand and touched her cheek. Eletric shocks rippled through Anna's body. Slowly, he wrapped his arms aound her and pulled her against him, burrying his face in her hair and rocking her gently to and fro.
Scene numebr #2;
'I wish this could go on for ever,' she sighed, rolling on to her back and running her hands through her long damp hair. 'I don't want anything to change.'
'But it will,' Felix said. 'And I worry that...' He paused, picking up a shell and turning it over and over in is hands.
'Worry about what?'
'What will happen when my training's over and we get deployed somewhere. What if I get sent abroad? How will you be then?'
'If you mean will I give up on us, you know the answer.'
'I know - it's just - well, I'm not stupid. You've got to have a life and with me miles away, and you off to uni next year, meeting with loads of boys that it'll be easier for you to be with...'
'Come on! No one's easier to be with than you...'
'You know what I mean. Boys actually in the same place as you, from the same background, boys your family would approve of.'
'I just want you, no one else,' Anna said. 'I don't care what my family think. So could you get that into your head once and for all?'
'I...'
She pushed him back on the sand and pressed her lips against his. And for a long while, neither of them said another word.
To be honest I did look for similarities between Echoes of Love and Persuasion, and there were many, but there were many differences too, obviously, as Echoes of Love is set in the 21st century, so it was bound to be differnt in many ways, such there is no heir who inherits the estate, and there is no such thing as beneicial marriage at a young age without being in love, no, there isn't even a relationship without two people being in love or fancying one and another, and so on, and so on.
But I was satisfied with the whole story, even though Anna and Felix didn't meet again until the 165th page, which is way over the middle of the book! However, I was informed of their relationship before they broke up, and that was very romantic too!
So these two were my favourite scenes;
Sence numebr #1;
'This much better,' Hugo repeated. In an instant he had spun her round to face him and was kissing her hungrily on the lips. It took Anna by suprise, but for a moment she responded, telling herself that maybe this was the way to get Felix out of her head and her heart once and for all, since single or not, he clearly had not time for her.
...
'Hugo no! she gasped.
'Come off it,' he muttered 'You know you want...' As his hand moved lower, she stamped on his foot with her heel and turned and run.
...
As she pushed open the front door, she saw a letter lying on the doormat. The writing on the envelope was unmistakable - it was from Felix.
She was ripping it open when her mobile beeped wih a text message. That too was from Felix.
Forget what I said in the letter. You've obviously found someone else.
Her heart racing she started to read.
Hi. I can't stand this any longer. I'm due back at my unit in ten days when my physio's finished and who knows where they'll send me? I love you, Anna.
Anna gasped out loud - and then glanced back at the message on the mobile still in her hand.
I never stopped loving you, the letter went on. Even when I was angry about all that stuff with your dad and you, I never stoped loving you. I tried to - I even tried to fancy Louisa, but nice as she is it was always you that I thought about. And then that day when you turned up at Charlie's place and fell on your face, that's when I knew I still wanted you. Please, say we can try again? Please?
...
There was no stamp on the letter. It had been hand delivered. Which meant Felix had been here. Could he have seen her and Hugo? Outside? Just now?
...
She grabbed her mobile. You've got it all wrong. I love you u only u. Where r u?
...
She found him sitting staring disconsolately into a pint.
'Felix!'
He started, and stared at her. 'I don't want to hear it,' he said, standing up and trying to push past her.
'Felix listen,' she urged. 'You don't get it.'
'Oh I get it,' he said. 'I saw it with my own eyes. You - and that jerk, Hugo. Kissing.'
'Please you have to believe me, I didn't want him to,' she said. 'He -'
'Come off it,' Felix said. 'Are you trying to tell me you gave him no encouragement at all? What do you think I am? Dumb?'
'OK, OK, please just let me say this, and then - well, then it's up to you.'
He said nothing, but he didn't move.
'OK, for just a moment, I thought that if I - you know, kissed him, it might help me forget you. Because I thought you didn't want me and that going out with someone else would help me move on. But it didn't work, because there is only one person I want to kiss, and that's you.'
'Say that again.'
'The only person I want to kiss is you.'
Slowly, very slowly, Felix stretched out a hand and touched her cheek. Eletric shocks rippled through Anna's body. Slowly, he wrapped his arms aound her and pulled her against him, burrying his face in her hair and rocking her gently to and fro.
Scene numebr #2;
'I wish this could go on for ever,' she sighed, rolling on to her back and running her hands through her long damp hair. 'I don't want anything to change.'
'But it will,' Felix said. 'And I worry that...' He paused, picking up a shell and turning it over and over in is hands.
'Worry about what?'
'What will happen when my training's over and we get deployed somewhere. What if I get sent abroad? How will you be then?'
'If you mean will I give up on us, you know the answer.'
'I know - it's just - well, I'm not stupid. You've got to have a life and with me miles away, and you off to uni next year, meeting with loads of boys that it'll be easier for you to be with...'
'Come on! No one's easier to be with than you...'
'You know what I mean. Boys actually in the same place as you, from the same background, boys your family would approve of.'
'I just want you, no one else,' Anna said. 'I don't care what my family think. So could you get that into your head once and for all?'
'I...'
She pushed him back on the sand and pressed her lips against his. And for a long while, neither of them said another word.
September 21, 2022
What would happen if Jane Austen's Persuasion was set in the twenty-first century? An evocative tale of the perils of listening to others, instead of your own heart ❤️
Echoes of Love is the fifth book in the 21st Century Austen series by Rosie Rushton. The series takes Jane Austen’s novels and turns them into contemporary teen romance stories, with Echoes of Love being based on Persuasion.
The book takes place in Europe, where the drinking age is 18, so many of the characters meet at bars and drink wine and beers. There are also some sexual innuendo’s made, which might make some parents uncomfortable about their younger teens reading the book. This young, hip, fresh take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion is sure to have the teen in your family clamoring for Austen’s originals. 🍻
I would recommend this story for YA readers as an introduction to Austen's story. Read Echoes of Love and if you like it, read Persuasion(still searching for the book 😂)
Echoes of Love is the fifth book in the 21st Century Austen series by Rosie Rushton. The series takes Jane Austen’s novels and turns them into contemporary teen romance stories, with Echoes of Love being based on Persuasion.
The book takes place in Europe, where the drinking age is 18, so many of the characters meet at bars and drink wine and beers. There are also some sexual innuendo’s made, which might make some parents uncomfortable about their younger teens reading the book. This young, hip, fresh take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion is sure to have the teen in your family clamoring for Austen’s originals. 🍻
I would recommend this story for YA readers as an introduction to Austen's story. Read Echoes of Love and if you like it, read Persuasion(still searching for the book 😂)
March 21, 2023
A modern re-telling of my favourite Jane Austen's books - Persuasion. The book was fun and light book whilst keeping to the original's main idea of being persuaded to against a relationship. But, I think that was might be where the similarities end. This book misses a major aspect of the original's which is that Anne is 27 years old, with her relationship with Wentworth ending 7 years previous and walking into the path of old maid. The painful loss of youth and love makes the stakes of the relationship very different. Also, I am not a huge fan of the majority of focus on the relationship before the break up as the slow reconciliation and longing between the characters is the main drive for the original book.
Overall, this is a enjoyable and fun book if you don't compare it too closely to the original's but as an Austen's Stan, this book wasn't ever going to work for me. (And, yes - this is STILL BETTER than the Dakota Johnson's Persuasion)
Overall, this is a enjoyable and fun book if you don't compare it too closely to the original's but as an Austen's Stan, this book wasn't ever going to work for me. (And, yes - this is STILL BETTER than the Dakota Johnson's Persuasion)
January 5, 2019
I was feeling pretty guilty about rereading during break, and I went on a Reserves binge: where you reserve 15 books at a time and they all come in at once and you only read half... happen to anyone else?! (And don’t tell me about pausing, I can’t ever figure it out!) Well, luckily this book did arrive in time, and it was lovely, 3 1/2 stars. As I have mentioned once or twice, :) I love modern Jane Austen. I noticed this Rushton lady has quite a series (with sadly cheesy titles and covers) so I figured I would give the Persuasion version a go. Good adaptation of the Dad as a reality star, and Wentworth as a Marine. I also liked the Mom as an extra character, although the sister going to live with her boyfriends family was tougher to sell. Overall though, a lovely time, and when I’m in a lurch I will definitely find the other Rushtons for fun fluff :)
May 29, 2023
I gave this book a 4.
Usually, when Im reading a book, the first thing that I looked is the writing style.
Does it suit me or not. Does it leave me craving for more?
For this book, the writing style does suit me.
But it has something that is a bit hard for me to describe.
I can leave it for few days and don't feel curious about the storyline.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the advantages of an adaptation.
Just because I have seen the movie persuasion before.
It was hard to not compare between the two.
I somehow already know the ending of this story.
Which take away the curiosity of a novel.
That's just it, i guess.
Usually, when Im reading a book, the first thing that I looked is the writing style.
Does it suit me or not. Does it leave me craving for more?
For this book, the writing style does suit me.
But it has something that is a bit hard for me to describe.
I can leave it for few days and don't feel curious about the storyline.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the advantages of an adaptation.
Just because I have seen the movie persuasion before.
It was hard to not compare between the two.
I somehow already know the ending of this story.
Which take away the curiosity of a novel.
That's just it, i guess.
January 6, 2026
Troszkę oszukuje z tym że ja przeczytałam. nie zrobiłam tego od A do Z. książka jest raczej słaba i trochę ja przekartkowałam by zobaczyć jaki to retelling. jestem wielką fanką Perswazji i tu ducha Perswazji w ogóle nie czuje. dla mnie dobry retelling oprócz skopiowanego planu wydarzeń powinien mieć... dusze oryginały. w przypadku Perswazji jestem jeszcze bardziej wymagająca. Ta wersja mi nie siadła. a Juz spłycenie tak bardzo ostatniego wyznania miłości to zbrodnia
June 6, 2017
Nice for very young adults/tweens
A good, gentle way to interest tweens and very young adults in Persuasion. The re-visioning of Walter Eliot is particularly good.
A good, gentle way to interest tweens and very young adults in Persuasion. The re-visioning of Walter Eliot is particularly good.
October 20, 2020
*2.5*
July 3, 2021
i dont get the echoes of love part tbh. i get the persuasion title though but personally i'd call it manipulation. loved loved loved the book though
September 13, 2021
The expansion of the "before" part of the story was good, but the "after" part was pretty rushed.
March 30, 2021
i kinda liked the first chapters (though i myself not really into 'insta-love' stories) i just found that anna being insanely lovestruck for felix is cute, and gladly he did fancy her either. however, i didn't find the same excitement through the rest :''' aarggjsj how obnoxious walter was for god's sake i hate him :(( but i'm chuffed that these two finally got themselves back together!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 3, 2022
✨3,75✨
July 3, 2016
Persuasion is novel so close to my heart that I have vowed to be the expert on it and all adaptations/retellings that come with it.
This is certainly one of the best I have seen, while it is a teen novel, even now I find it compelling and entertaining.
What I loved about this is it told the reader how Anne and Freddie got together, and how their separation went, they also made the reason that Freddie is home from the services very modern. While I enjoyed a look into the past, it did take up a lot of the story and left about half to the original itself. Still, I wouldn't skip over this part of the story when I reread it in the future.
Something I rate the retelling by is the ending, and my god, the ending was good here. While nothing will ever compare to the original ending (the letter still gives me goosebumps) Rushton gave it her all and it really paid off.
I never really felt like anything was forced to be made modern, nothing seemed out of place in this retelling. This begs the question - why has no one made this into a vlog series like Lizzie Bennet Diaries or made it into a modern day film like Clueless? I think this needs to happen since this book clearly shows it can be done and work extremely well.
This is certainly one of the best I have seen, while it is a teen novel, even now I find it compelling and entertaining.
What I loved about this is it told the reader how Anne and Freddie got together, and how their separation went, they also made the reason that Freddie is home from the services very modern. While I enjoyed a look into the past, it did take up a lot of the story and left about half to the original itself. Still, I wouldn't skip over this part of the story when I reread it in the future.
Something I rate the retelling by is the ending, and my god, the ending was good here. While nothing will ever compare to the original ending (the letter still gives me goosebumps) Rushton gave it her all and it really paid off.
I never really felt like anything was forced to be made modern, nothing seemed out of place in this retelling. This begs the question - why has no one made this into a vlog series like Lizzie Bennet Diaries or made it into a modern day film like Clueless? I think this needs to happen since this book clearly shows it can be done and work extremely well.
April 25, 2015
The story line is loosely based on Persuation by Jane Austen. There are some similarities, and of course many differences. For one, the main characters are much younger, also the setting is in the 21st century, and the most important is that the time line covered only a number of months and not years as in the original.
Overall the story line is very similar - a girl meets a boy, then breaks up with him after a pressure from her family, meets him again and gets him back.
I found the characters a bit lacking, not well developed. I found Anna a bit anoying since I was expecting someone intelligent and reserved. Maybe because of the young age of the characters I did not believe in their great love. Something vital was missing in their story to make it real.
Obviously this book was aimed at young girls. The language used reflected that, yet I hope that young adults who attend univerisities and colleges would show a bit more intelligence especially in their spoken language.
Overall the story line is very similar - a girl meets a boy, then breaks up with him after a pressure from her family, meets him again and gets him back.
I found the characters a bit lacking, not well developed. I found Anna a bit anoying since I was expecting someone intelligent and reserved. Maybe because of the young age of the characters I did not believe in their great love. Something vital was missing in their story to make it real.
Obviously this book was aimed at young girls. The language used reflected that, yet I hope that young adults who attend univerisities and colleges would show a bit more intelligence especially in their spoken language.
May 24, 2011
this book was sooo sweet!
a really good ending!
this book was a modern classic take on the classic book 'persuassion' By Jane Austen!
it really retold the story well and Rosie but the modern day into this book cleverly.
this book has elements of love,passion and regret in.
if you are looking for a nice summer read or you really just want a quite easy read this is defiantly your book.
i can't wait to read some of the other books rosie rushton has written as they are all modern classics of mostly Jane Austen books!
a really good ending!
this book was a modern classic take on the classic book 'persuassion' By Jane Austen!
it really retold the story well and Rosie but the modern day into this book cleverly.
this book has elements of love,passion and regret in.
if you are looking for a nice summer read or you really just want a quite easy read this is defiantly your book.
i can't wait to read some of the other books rosie rushton has written as they are all modern classics of mostly Jane Austen books!
April 3, 2016
An up-to-date modern interpretation of one of my favourite Jane Austen novels, Persuasion.
Felix Wentworth is back from fighting in Afghanistan. Anna is still in love with him. Can they overcome the issues which initially pulled them apart and finally find happiness together?
A fantastic book. Rosie Rushton has captured the essence and spirit of Austen's classic but also added her own spin. Austen for the 21st century.
Felix Wentworth is back from fighting in Afghanistan. Anna is still in love with him. Can they overcome the issues which initially pulled them apart and finally find happiness together?
A fantastic book. Rosie Rushton has captured the essence and spirit of Austen's classic but also added her own spin. Austen for the 21st century.
December 31, 2012
I think Echoes of love is an amazing book and it helps you to understand the books written by Jane Austen more so when you come to read them you have a better understanding of what is going on. Slightly soppy but a completely worthwhile read!
January 26, 2014
sweet story :)
March 10, 2015
2.5
Comtemporary retelling of Jane Austen's "Persuasion". Just ok.
Comtemporary retelling of Jane Austen's "Persuasion". Just ok.
January 19, 2015
A good little read, felt a tad rushed at the end but I enjoyed it while lounging in a bubble bath.
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