lawrenceevalyn 's review for:

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

4.0

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Engaging and rewarding, with a solid accuracy to both the book and the time sufficient to let the complexity of both breathe a little, while still leading in directions very comforting to modern sensibilities. I enjoyed how the novel took its time with Mary, and really allowed me to feel each of the possibilities it posed for her future. (Though, reading this one on my phone, I sometimes forgot that profic P&P continuations are a different genre from fanfic ones, and relentlessly heterosexual, so there were some possibilities the novel never considered which I still think ought to be fully written some day.) I don’t necessarily agree with all its interpretations, but I enjoyed thinking about all the things it prompted thinking about. I suspect that, even more than Jo Walton’s Longbourne, this is a book that will really only please readers of P&P, but there are enough of those that there is no problem there. I recommend it to anyone who finds the premise interesting.