A review by anekk78
Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope

medium-paced

1.5

I love modern retellings of Austen novels, but this just doesn’t cut it. This is just too similar! It is not a retelling, more just the exact same story modernised - add in some mobile phones, Ellinor working and a gay brother and hey presto the story is modernised. The characters are the same, the setting is the same and it doesn’t work in my opinion. First the Edvard part, that doesn’t seem plausable. Why doesn’t he have a job or an education? Then the Brandon/Marianne story - that is just icky thinking abou the age gap. And it is emphasized, focusing on how old he is. Would have been better had he only been portrayed as the less exciting alternative rather than the old. And I especially found the setting of the story boring, it is exactly the same. At least in the Pk&P retelling they changed the city and even country. That is also the case with all the retellings I have read. The story about a wealthy landowner kicking out his sisters who then need help getting housing belongs in the 1800s, not the 2000s. 
I understand why they didn’t continue the series, but had hoped for a Persuasion retelling.