I really wanted to like this book, an updated take of "Emma". I slogged through 3/4 of the book before throwing my hands up in despair and putting the book down. Unlikeable characters that I found impossible to feel any empathy with. By the time I gave up, Mr. Knightly had appeared only briefly yet I was approaching the final quarter of the book...Mr. Knightly, who was always Emma's compass in the original, was still a minor character. I felt like the author did not like the characters or the situations he put them in, and I didn't either.
