Getting to marry a man you loved, as Austen’s heroines did, was emotionally pretty similar to getting a job offer for your dream job. Agreeing to marry was more of a business deal with wives chosen by what they could bring to their husbands. See, marriage back then was essentially a woman’s occupation. What The Lizzie Bennet Diaries understood, as Gillian (Writer of Wrongs) has very wisely told me, is that a marriage proposal in the past is very akin to a job offer now. The biggest problem with The Last Best Kiss is how the modernization is done. I ended up somewhat liking this one only because I’ve apparently forgotten a good deal of the middle of Persuasion. If you can’t, it’s going to be frustrating. If you are able to separate The Last Best Kiss from Persuasion, it’s a fun read, though not a great one. This retelling fails to capture the emotional resonances of the original. Oh, LaZebnik puts all the things in basically the right places they’re very clearly retellings. That book is a mess and changes only improve it. The difference between her Mansfield Park retelling and the other two (Pride and Prejudice in Epic Fail and Persuasion in The Last Best Kiss) is that I didn’t care and in fact thought it was awesome that she made alterations to Mansfield Park. For more reviews, Cover Snark and more, visit A Reader of Fictions.Īt this point, it’s seeming as though my love of LaZebnik’s The Trouble with Flirting may have been a fluke.
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