Title: I'm damning with faint praise, here...
Product review: Oh, so disappointing! I very much looked forward to this sexy parody of the beloved Jane Austen; such a shame it just doesn't work. While the style is often quite close, there are just too, too many jarring modernisms that destroy the necessary suspension of disbelief. And... while there are some quite funny bits, there are more that aren't. It needed a good edit - but that would very likely have left the authors without a book. I should think Jane Austen would have approved of and enjoyed the idea, as one who certainly had a sense of humour, but as a perfectionist in writing I doubt she'd have approved of the execution.
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