Status Updates From Meet the Benedettos

of course it gave jane an ed. cant wait for deus ex mary-na.

oh and mr bennet is the asshole awesome man great book (formally updating page number bc im clearly not gonna actually read this)

oh he isnt even that close to his sister wow great cool

skippin to the end and seeing the fucking mom gets pov chapters. christ alive everyone hates mrs bennet and kris jenner wtf are we doing giving her pov chaps??????????????????????????????????????????????????

*guy who hates instalove voice* oh cool their kissing already. awesome.

like. im sorry. the literal Whole Point of p&p is that they Dont meet cute. im sure Something will happen to make it negative but like, come ON. if you wanna adapt it SO LAZILY (junejane lillywithtwoL'slizziemariannemaryolivialydiakatkit let alone will charlie caroline) you HAVE to follow the plot better. this isjust soooooo anoying

oh good so darcy is a fresh out of the hospital nobody and the bennets are the notorious ones. like. okay.

1) hating parties is hashtag valid
2) for the sake of the book ignoring that they said their freshman year of college was FIFTEEN YEARS AGO making them MID 30s because that is ANNOUING TO ME

ANOTHER DUAL FUCKING POV CHRIST ALIVE i just dont think a fucking PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATION should be like "and dont worry :P heres whta darcys thinking the whole time!"

"the blue night air cool on the back of her neck." cotugno is so good at small lines like this i wish the surrounding material met the same standard

learning the hadid brother's name because this book is allergic to just doing some worldbuilding

"the sea glittering endlessly down below them, the sky extravagantly, wastefully blue." katie cotugno write a travelogue book the descriptions of places are always the best bits

i cant even think of who the isobel chraracter is supposed to be in og p&p, i guess the desperation to give the paris and kim backstory was just more important than that lol. like its not like i need an exact 1:1 story i just want less blatant real world gloss over the whole thing. the dumb meatball king thing is a Good example of how to change the setting

sorry. is bingley chris evans. is this book about to ask 'what if khloe kardashian and chris evans fell in love" i dont Love the muscly football cum julliard superhero guy Schtick but the evans-elations just firmly superceded that critique lol

"lena dunham mumblecore" once more i say you HAVE to give me WHAT EXACT YEAR things are operating in bc thats DATED AS HELLLLLLL

1) cronut and vitamix are such dated refs
2) i did misread "the boss of her four sisters" as "the boss of the four sisters" so thought it was a typo when she said the five of them esp bc so many sisters get pared down in adaptations

giving this a chance off of the things i did like in birds of california but i fear i hate a bad p&p adaptation very much And have hard opinions on how aspects of social media and pop culture should be depicted in a book so we'll see. also the real world names and such in the other book mostly worked but the addison rae namecheck hear doesnt work for me at all. this one is so much more a specific pastiche so its dif.