Kess Kesterton’s Reviews > Charlotte > Status Update

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As I been predicting since the beginning, she cheats on her husband. Tbf he is kinda gross and nothing-ey but like, c'mon, how you gonna romanticise cheating? Not a fan

Pretty goob

Just watched the 90s Film of Persuasion and ugh I just love Jane Austen's characters, need to find out if there's more (well-written) spinoff material like this book.

I always think when reading these, that I'd love to live a life where I have like zero responsibilities. Where, because I'd belong to 18th century aristocracy, I could just do shit, like go visit my family in the country for weeks and sit around in the outdoors and take morning walks and sit by cafes or have a picnic whenever I chose... and then I remember, I'm an arts student - this is pretty much my life.

I'm starting to really get into it. It's decidedly not Jane Austen's writing, despite language choices. It's very obviously a modern story from the way it unfurls on the page, and some of the themes.
Anne De Bourgh, who is jus some sickly posh girl in P&P, is actually fleshed out here, and very lesbian-core which is exciting. I hope some gay shit happens bc that's what I always thought Austen's books were lacking :(

Despite a kind of weak opening, she's actually nailed the characters from P&P. The writing is a kind of more modern take on Austen's style, and manages to preserve the high-brow prose without seeming overly pretentious, which is nice. I'm enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would :)