Review: Editors Where Were You?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2013
Definitely not the best P&P; variation I've read but not the worst either. I must agree with some of the other reviews I read. The author should have done more research about the Regency. Elizabeth and Darcy would not have done some of the things they did in this book because Regency society would not have allowed them to behave that way. Elizabeth is so rude at times I was put off. Jane Austen would not have recognized her beloved character. I also think that someone should have looked into the inheritance laws of the time. Did Wickham really believe that he would be George Darcy's heir? Even I know that that would not have happened.But the most unpleasant thing about this book was the grammar. Where were the editors and what kind of English did they study? Wow! Talk about mistakes. Some of them were so bad they made me want to put my Kindle away and stop reading this book. I had to push myself to finish it! I usually give the authors the benefit of a doubt by thinking the spelling and/or wrong words are due to printing errors. Not with this book. And I refuse to totally blame the author. She had to submit the book to a publisher and publisher usually have editors working for them. So who were the editors of this book and where did they learn to read and write the Queen 's English.I have to say something about the "porn" issue. Although the sex is a little heavy I don't consider it to be porn. I've read other P&P; variations that have been worse and definitely more graphic. The only thing that I found to be out of character for both Elizabeth and Darcy were the scenes in the theater and when Elizabeth plays pool with the colonel. Neither is something I think either would do or allow.Again this is not the best P&P; variation I've read. It needed a good editor. To bad it did not get one. But, believe it or not, it's not the worst.Oh, dear author, if your going to quote something from a book in your book, please make sure it was written before the time period of your book, not after. Just a little advice.