Title: Just horrible . . .
Product review: I picked up this paperback on a whim, thinking that it was a light mystery based on the characters in Pride and Prejudice. I should have read the reviews here instead of relying on the cover blurb.There is nothing wrong with writing a mystery with a supernatural twist, but it was totally unnecessary to attribute it to a Jane Austen character to whom this sort of activity would be totally foreign.Jane Austen went out of her way in "Northanger Abbey" to spoof horrid novels and make fun of impressionable girls who take that sort of thing seriously, rather than looking upon such stories as silly though thrilling diversions.To imagine that she would attribute serious interest in the occult to the generally practical Elizabeth Bennet was absurd and disappointing. Perhaps if the author attributed the interest to a Katherine Morland Tilney having a relapse, I might have bought it . . . .
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