2⭐️1.5🌶️

Sci-fi romance

Space romance

Pride and prejudice 

Grumpy sunshine

Miscommunication

Dynamic family

Slow burn

The images didn’t fit well on my kindle. There are over 50 images/illustrations throughout the book, that lost their luster being in black and white on my kindle. The illustrations are spectacularly beautiful… but my kindle just didn’t do it justice. 

Let me be very clear.

Just because a piece of work is public domain, does not mean that this kind of “adaptation” isn’t plagiarism. If Austen were alive today, she would be suing. This book is not a retelling or reimagining of the classic story… It is literally Jane Austen’s writing, in space. The beginning of it feels like it was copied and pasted, which was a letdown when I was looking forward to a more original interpretation.

The idea of a space P&P retelling is interesting. I found that so much from regency England seemed to decently fit into the futuristic setting, it just didn’t seem futuristic… the juxtaposition was not my favorite.

I wish that the author would have taken her wonderfully developed world building and completely ran with it, creating her version of this classic, instead of sticking so closely to Austen’s dialogue and writing style. 

My takeaway from reading it was that this is a book that should have stayed on Ao3. Or maybe it should have been a coffee table book with p&p quotes to reference for the images. A graphic novel would have been amazing!!! 

Thank you NetGalley and Union Square & Co for an eARC for this book. All opinions are my own.