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A review by izzyizreading
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters, Jane Austen
Did not finish book.
1.0
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Dnf pg 34.(37)
Ok. So. I was hoping to like this this better than Pride and prejudice and zombies. I mean different author, right? Yea, no. Hate it. Semi spoils below (bc I didn't get far and it's a character change)
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Spoils
Lady Middleton is introduced as being a "prize" an indigenous woman, whose people worshiped Sir John, but then not... and then he and his men murdered the men and took the woman.
And then next page you have, "She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be a servant and helpmate to an Englishman many years her senior, for some reason sat poorly with her." This. Is not witty, especially with how in the same paragraph she is also called John's concubine. What's happening here? And why? I was very weirded out and angry. I went to skim bc i knew from pictures that we were going to see brandon. But the anger grew, she is a caricature and it got grosser. Next page, her mother Ms. Jennings is Jennings bc John calls her that because it amuses him and basically her name was Really Long and Hard to English. And I was done and here we are.
Dnf pg 34.(37)
Ok. So. I was hoping to like this this better than Pride and prejudice and zombies. I mean different author, right? Yea, no. Hate it. Semi spoils below (bc I didn't get far and it's a character change)
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Spoils
Lady Middleton is introduced as being a "prize" an indigenous woman, whose people worshiped Sir John, but then not... and then he and his men murdered the men and took the woman.
And then next page you have, "She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be a servant and helpmate to an Englishman many years her senior, for some reason sat poorly with her." This. Is not witty, especially with how in the same paragraph she is also called John's concubine. What's happening here? And why? I was very weirded out and angry. I went to skim bc i knew from pictures that we were going to see brandon. But the anger grew, she is a caricature and it got grosser. Next page, her mother Ms. Jennings is Jennings bc John calls her that because it amuses him and basically her name was Really Long and Hard to English. And I was done and here we are.