Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmondson

Rating: WARTY!

"A 'witty' retelling (Publishers Weekly) of Sense and Sensibility" - because the original had no wit at all, right? There's nothing witty about ripping off a dead author. The world desperately needs the ten-thousandth and one re-writing of a Jane Austen novel. Like it needs another pandemic. There's nothing new in this plot either: "When Daisy Richardson and her sister learn of their father’s involvement in a public scandal, they must" open a bordello and call themselves 'ladies of the House'? Now that just might be an original story!