It's more like Fanny and Lydia (I KNOW THEY'RE NOT IN THE SAME BOOK1!111). Expecting Elizabeth and Jane? Don't hold your breath. The language is both pretentious (Shew! Shewed! Chuze! Chusing!) and inconsistent The characters are extremely similar to Austen's, with none of the complexity, resulting in characters that are predictable and dull I'm just in a fucking bad mood right now after reading this book and I don't care. Her love interest is not so much Darcy as he is Jane Eyre's Rochester (yes, I know they're not by the same author) played by a 9th grade drama student with aspirations of playing Heathcliff, whose inspiration for Heathcliff (yes, I know that's yet another book) comes from The Simpsons' Ned Flander's portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (I KNOW THEY'RE ALL BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS, THAT'S NOT THE FREAKING POINT!). Why bother? You're just going to pick it off and throw it away anyway. This book is the equivalent of a limp, tasteless slice of tomato on a McDonalds' hamburger.
The difference is that when you bite into said GMO tomato, it tastes like mealy, mushy, tasteless crap. Sure, they're technically both classified as fruits. This book is like Jane Austen's works in the way that a genetically modified out-of-season greenhouse tomato is like a cherry. Mary Robinette lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. She records fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve.
Her novel Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in a single year.Īs a professional puppeteer and voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), Mary Robinette has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures, and founded Other Hand Productions. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, several Year’s Best anthologies and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. She’s a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Nebula, and Locus awards. Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut Universe and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers.
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