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south asian P&P adaptations never really do it for me :(

Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron

May 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Here we have an Emma retelling, by Farah Heron of Accidentally Engaged fame. I admitted did not finish said book, but I am well documented as reading any and all Jane Austen fic that comes my way so here we were, reading a South Asian retelling of the seminal Austen work. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Austen retelling, Emma, Farah heron

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Austen retelling, Emma, Farah heron ·
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incense and sensibility

Watch Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet instead

Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev

July 22, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Flora: there’s two lotus flowers on the cover of this book, which made me realize that the main heroine’s hair was short the entire time–not super common for romance novels, will give it that! I do not understand why I keep reading these books, I clearly do not like them. And every time I read them I get grumpy that this is likely The Indian Retelling of Jane Austen’s oeuvre, at least for a number of years. You don’t see Jane Austen and Werewolves anywhere, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Austen retelling, cbr13bingo, Flora, sonali dev

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:116 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Austen retelling, cbr13bingo, Flora, sonali dev ·
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More Magic A Little Austen and A Few Surprises

The True Queen by Zen Cho

May 10, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve had The True Queen sitting on my shelf a while; long enough that I remember the general plot and characters of the first novel in the series (A Sorcerer to the Crown) which ended up being a little bit of a problem when I didn’t quite remember who certain characters were at first or how they were meant to relate to each other. The first novel is Jane Austen-esque, and this one keeps the general vibe, but the story this time is all new; […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, Austen retelling, fairy, Jane Austen, The Sorcerer Royal, the true queen, Zen Cho

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, Austen retelling, fairy, Jane Austen, The Sorcerer Royal, the true queen, Zen Cho ·
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