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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.”
— Nov 05, 2026 04:44PM
“Did you truly bring me a pie?”
“I could not bring you a house.”
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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.
— Nov 06, 2026 05:32PM
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.
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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.
— Nov 06, 2026 02:17PM
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.
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More red flags >> “Mr. Darcy spoke with the firmness of a man whose instructions had lately been questioned enough.”
— Nov 05, 2026 10:01AM
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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 !!
— Nov 05, 2026 08:12AM
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 !!
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Nov 05, 2026 07:06PM
"Unnatural ... faux-witty" are great terms to characterize this type of dialogue. I will add that it often has something like a staccato rhythm with too few attempts to tell the reader who is speaking. It's definitely a red flag, IMHO. Of course, I saw where you mentioned that the author admitted to AI assistance. Thanks for your continued research. Funny that I remember when this author was popular and publishing in the early 2010s. I gave up on her because she liked to serialize stories, and this was before KU. Serialized stories become expensive quickly.
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Yikes! I just looked at the book's page and saw that it's listed for 12.99 for the kindle version and is not in K+.
Her books are incredibly expensive. I read five books in one series before giving up. Elizabeth and Darcy still weren’t married, and $50 was far too much for what I did read.
I can’t believe (but of course I do believe it, with how the market works nowadays) how some authors might strive to artifically extend their own work beyond readers’ loyalty or patience !In a related example (not the same, but similar somehow) ; I recently binged through the available Emma M Lion series and that’s exactly what happened >> the author is writing a tv adaptation structured in seasons with sub plots and cliff-hangers instead of literary volumes that would congeal between each other and work together to advance the plot.