Status Updates From The Terms of the Bequest: A...

This is what happens when all adults leave the room >> when the editors / beta readers / book marketing team are your BFFs and won’t tell authors NO when they anake fools of themselves.

A bequest left to a supposedly low class woman, for the significant favour of paying a hackney, translates into the gift of an estate in Sheffield, w/ a ridiculous clause requiring living there for 10 yrs or lose the property!

Aside from the very weird choice to have Darcy’s visit to Hertfordshire (off page) exactly as per canon, while seriously altering past events around Old Mr. Darcy’s bequest, there is more incoherence happening…

Old Mr. Darcy’s death scene was a serious matter. And Anne’s past episode was sordid & intense. But Darcy’s proposal is a joke >> calling the Bennets’ cabbage-heads, clowns & spongers (WHAT?)

The advanced preview of this story showed us a serious/sombre scene of Darcy attending his father’s sickbed, making him a promise just before his death. A mysterious bequest to one Elizabeth Bennet is revealed. Wow!

But reading the book, we get a VERY WEIRD mashup with canon P&P, where Darcy appears in Rosings after his visit in Hertfordshire happened unchanged to Austen’s original work (WHAT?). HUGE FAUX PAS