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| This was a kind of cute romance, although I wish Benedict and Emma had talked a bit earlier about his secret, because the Act 3 break up wasn't my favourite :-D ...more | |
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I really enjoy Jane Austen variations. I love the familiarity of a couple of hours spent with characters I love in relatively low stakes environments. This book, however, had the bland sameness in the prose. Mrs Younge is described as attentive almost ...more |
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A Cottage Near Lambton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation (Period-Authentic Dramas):
"DNF
This is my third attempt at reading this author who has a way of writing in a the dullest, most flowery way possible. One commenter said “ it’s prose trying to be poetry “ and I say it’s mediocre poetry trying to be prose. Alas, the third was not " Read more of this review » |
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A Cottage Near Lambton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation (Period-Authentic Dramas):
"This is a sad sad era for human creativity.
I love Jane Austen. But this is, in truth, written by our overlords Artificial Intelligence. The numerous repetitions, the 400+ pages to say nothing of consequence but a non-story, everything " quiet ", every" Read more of this review » |
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I noticed the irony of the disclaimer at the beginning too. Having read 100s of Jane Austen variations at this point, I've seen dozens of authors who
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A Cottage Near Lambton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation (Period-Authentic Dramas):
"This is the case of a lady who prefaces her book that AI has not been used in its creation and given the other reviews I came across on Goodreads and Amazon, I can see why she would feel the need to do so.
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Underneath Sunset Skies: A Summer Romance (Sunset Bay Book 1)
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| This was... not my favourite. I loved Ellie's relationship with her twin brothers. I have twin nephews who are 9, nearly ten, and they two are agents of chaos in the best possible way (maybe their parents would disagree). I thought ellie's dynamic wi ...more | |
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| I really enjoyed the chapters in the past of this book—they were really cute and wholesome–but I struggled a lot with present-day Macy. So much of whether I could root for them hinged on the reason why she broke up with him, and, ultimately, I was di ...more | |
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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.”
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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre