Status Updates From Yours, Eventually

lots of redundancies in the plot as well as tell not show that does somewhat align with the original book but here it goes on and on, probably because this book is double the length of the first despite no plot deviations. also there’s more characters to flesh out her world but now the relationships and plot points don’t seem to make sense together

the culture stuff makes the limitations of the plot (since it uses social norms from 200 years ago) work which is cool. though, this book VERY closely follows Persuasion which is probably not for the best considering how slow that book is. also this is a very tell not show narrative but the author is primarily a lawyer so this makes sense