A Pride & Prejudice remix where "Elizabeth" is a trans man called Oliver, and Darcy is a gay man, and also they're all teens.

I think it would have been MUCH better if the author wrote a modern retelling instead. Both the language and the attitudes in this book was simply way too modern. I also couldn't get used to all the characters being called "boys" - I know they are teens in this retelling, but even then if they are of marriageable age, surely "young men" would have been more suitable.

I don't think that queer people necessarily have to be miserable in historical stories for "realism". But their happy end will not look the same as cishet people's happy end. The way Oliver has always planned to tell his whole family (and possibly the world) about him, "Elizabeth Bennet" being a man, is just beyond my suspension of disbelief, as is the way he manages to INHERIT their house. Sure, you can have a doctor testify in court that he's a man, but do you really think the court won't demand physical proof, or literally anybody in the city won't speak out about this family having five daughters up until now?

One other strange thing was that making the second eldest child 17 years old made the other three far too young, but at least the Lydia/Wickham story was taken out, probably for that reason. 

Overall, I simply wasn't sold on this as a historical novel in any way.