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Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa De La Cruz

December 18, 2019 by kella 3 Comments

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times, I LOVE Pride and Prejudice. It’s one of my all time faves, and I’m a sucker for reboots and any manner of variations….. as long as they’re good. This was… not. This modern ‘retelling’ centres on Darcy Fitzwilliam who returns to her hometown of Pemberly, OH over Christmas after her mom experiences some health problems. She has been largely estranged from most of her family, and hasn’t been home in years. She runs into Luke […]

I would like to drown everyone in this book in a vat of eggnog. (Featuring bonus gifs to make me feel better.)

January 10, 2018 by scootsa1000 5 Comments

I was super excited when I saw this at my local bookstore. One of my all-time favorite classics, modernized and gender-swapped, set at Christmas, and with a cute cover. This was going to be great. SPOILER: THIS WAS NOT GREAT. This was absolutely awful. The worst. The writing was terrible and amateurish. The plot points were forced, like they were simply following a checklist of things that Jane Austen originally wrote. Every single character was a horrible human being that I never wanted to know. […]

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