When I finished this book I thought if you changed this to a historical romance with a few changes, it would be like a lot of the books I've read. I didn't really correlate the author's quote and reference to Jane Austen until afterwards and then slapped myself in the forehead. It's a retelling of P...
Dystopian PersuasionThis isn't a perfect book, but it's a damn good one. As a retelling of Austen's book I think it is wildly successful and enjoyable.There is a very strict caste system on the plantations, and politically the society is rigid, punitive, and hypocritical. In a general sort of...
Dystopian Persuasion This isn't a perfect book, but it's a damn good one. As a retelling of Austen's book I think it is wildly successful and enjoyable.There is a very strict caste system on the plantations, and politically the society is rigid, punitive, and hypocritical. In a general sort...
I'm ashamed to admit that I have never read [b:Persuasion|2156|Persuasion|Jane Austen|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1385172413s/2156.jpg|2534720]. As a result, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from For Darkness Shows the Stars, but I was very pleasantly surprised that my lack of k...
For Darkness Shows the Stars is one of those book that takes time to develop but when it grip you, it does not let you go until the end. Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is set in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth. Social structure reminded me of Gone with the W...
I loved this book! I loved picking out the Persuasion bits, all the second chances and covert looks, the letters from the past and frustrating moments where you know Elliot and Kai are meant to be together, but they take forever to admit it to themselves! But I also loved the futuristic nature of it...
I'd love to do a character/plot/romance/writing breakdown of this book, but I seem to have more difficulty articulating why I like a book, as opposed to why I hate it, and I did like this one. It had a few elements that irked me, but nothing that weighed heavy on my mind upon turning the last page.P...
4,5 starsThis one is really close to a 5 star rating but not quite. Although I like Jane Austen, I haven't (yet) read Persuasion. Maybe this reading would have been different had I read Persuasion before this one but I don't think that that is something I need to worry about - much. I have to say I ...
Good writing and an interesting world but a horrible Persuasion retelling and since I was in this for the retelling this book really didn't do it for me!
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