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1) every household task is reduced to linen; seriously, it would make a nice drinking game!

2) AI shows in some lack of common sense, characters know things they shouldn’t, or don’t know things they should ; obsessive focus on little details (a phrase, a length of thread), and skip over core points of the mystery they should be curious about.

3) some serious sordidness at past Pemberley in too much for me.

There are some editorial glitches (unfinished phrases or punctuation errors) but there are no glaring mistakes in the story itself and its logic.

AI use (self confessed) is more blantant in dialogue (faux witty, three-sentence structure) and details like overuse of abstract nouns (above and beyond any natural reading).

The witchy part is too misterious, slow & dragging.

Dialogue like this sounds unnatural and unnecessarily faux-witty; it has become a red flag too. So irritating in fact that it disturbs the flow of my reading experience.

“Did you truly bring me a pie?”
“I could not bring you a house.”

More red flags >> “Mr. Darcy spoke with the firmness of a man whose instructions had lately been questioned enough.”

This book openly says it’s written using AI (AI aided, or AI prompted, but human read and edited, allegedly) — INTERESTING

First scene, first dialogue and we find “I hope the beds have not grown tired of waiting for us” >> sentient objects and faux poetic turns of phrase are a huge red flag.

I will be reading this one for science !!

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

This type of literary device is precisely what makes me raise an eyebrow (red flag) >> objects and rooms taking on animated characteristics, thoughts or actions.

“A chair could declare as much importance as its occupant wished. It could not answer a question.”

The first volume had potential (part 1); the second volume had a drastic decline in tone/coherence; and this last third part has decidedly gone downhill !

Formulaic phrases, depressing dreamlike tone, over-use of literary figures that make no sense — many AI red flags to be found (characters to illogical things for illogical motives, formulaic phrases inserting unnecessary poetic flair, depressing tone)

Darcy has kicked Elizabeth out of her office, he has threatened her with lawyers, with criminal charges, with prison time, he is also threatening her livelihood (on a second company), and keeps ruthlessly abusing her verbally, because he has been lead to believe (accurately) that she is lying to him… only not on the corporate angle he believes.

There is no way back from this. I am so mad I fell for this blurb!

“It had only ever been meant as a little white lie between friends, not a company-wide hoax.”

Elizabeth and Bingle (Jane too) are nasty pieces of work, and I would not wish them near me, not even with a 1000 feet pole !

Darcy is falling hard for Elizabeth, while Elizabeth, Bingley & Jane are plotting and laughing behind his back, zero regrets about lying to Darcy all this time…

Trying to make Darcy “woke” by claiming there is a Pemberley Reparations Fund to offset some imaginary guilt for some hereditary sins of wealth of his is A BAD JOKE [ eye roll ]

What exactly is Darcy supposed to feel guilty about?? For being wealthy? For owning land ??? Or maybe for being a White European in a post-BLM society ???

Almost 1/3 in, and the lie hasn’t been disclosed yet, Darcy still believes Elizabeth is dating Bingley, and it already turned tiresome — silly and contrived.

There is no reason for Bingley to push his deceit at this point. The basis of the conflict is feeble and lame. Let’s see how it progresses.

So many little glitches that add up >> from a convoluted historically inaccurate mention of a pen/fountain pen, to careless Americanisms inserted (like “chaise lounge”.

Also, the growing feeling that the author is making it up as she goes along (natural for a long series format, but contrary to her claims about knowing how everything will play out in her sifferent arcs)…

Vivid descriptions of child torture is not precisely what the fangirls are hyping about this book series, is it??? [ eye roll ]

I have arrived at this point with a deep sense of doom; is it all going downhill from now?? Is it going downhill already??

Anytime a “Golden Age” is mentioned, one knows it will spoil in no-time; and some devices being used to push characters together/apart are too contrived even for a farcical “comedy” like this one.

The heartbreak is horrible! In between the lines there is so much angst, pain, hopeless sorrow…

Why is this series sold as a happy, upbeat read ???

Why does everyone say this is a funny, upbeat, cozy read ?????? Emma’s life so far is a tragedy of abuse and neglect, and I am stressed out of my mind by the disconnect between content & tone here !

Have I mentioned how much I HATE the Goodreads layout that forces me to place star ratings or fully remove whenever I accidentally touch a title while scrolling ????

The leitmotif of the book is that Lizzy tells Darcy they should face hardship side by side, together. It’s been unnaturally hammered into the story since their courtship. So of course now, a few chapters after the latest repetition, Lizzy randomly decides to flee to Pemberley with Georgiana and abandon Darcy to deal with their troubles on his own, with Cnel Fitzwiliam at best!

Every scene is endlessly rehashed and retold several times every time the next scene unfolds. It’s tiresome, it’s formulaic, it’s word-padding, it’s faux poetic, and VERY irritating!

Daecy is following a boy who is carrying some gossip to the printer; Darcy arrives promptly after the boy, and in some very weird interaction, the printer denies him the handwritten packet (newly arrived) and claims THE GOSSIP RAG WAS ALREADY PRINTED AND DISRIBUTED IN ADVANCED COPIES around London, so he can’t stop the presses for any price now (WHAT?!?!?)

Serious glitch here, there’s no way a human wrote this!

Cnel Fitzwilliam is said to be arriving soon, THEN Darcy goes and writes a letter asking his cousing to please come to London (what??)

Elizabeth significantly remembers telling Jane about some house renovation, Jane says she told Caroline because it was romantic, they are following a thread here… pages later the info comes up in a gossip rag — serious timeline glitch !

So many little glitches! From a weird timeline setting the wedding date, to time/distance misalignments (an express from London to Longbourn taking 3 days’ time to arrive), and Lizzy signing the chirch register “Elizabeth Darcy” (we expect ladies to sign their maiden name for the last time then, not their new name yet).

Ah! Mr. Bingley already read P&P ahead of arriving in Meryton, I see [ eye roll ]

“Jane has a cold coming on, I think. She sneezed twice at dinner. If Caroline asks her to Netherfield next week, I shall not object. And if her sister walks over to nurse her..."

Does anyone else hate it that Goodreads is auto rating stars whenever you touch the sceeen near a title ????

Listening to audiobook :

1) it’s very strange to structure a romance between Lizzy and Darcy while his beloved wife (not Elizabeth) is literally on her deathbed.

2) Elizabeth is a paid companion that serves a dying Mrs. Darcy who doesn’t leave her rooms, so her role is less of a standard companion, and more of a secretary-nurse.