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Just walk away!, 14 Sep 2007
If I could give this book zero stars I would. A friend of mine was interviewed by Emma Tennant for a place at Cambridge and her mum bought her this book after she was rejected, and it certainly made her feel better about it. Saying that Emma Tennant claims that 'Emma' is one of her favourite novels, she doesn't actually seem to have read it.
The storyline and standard of writing in this "book" are so poor that for every page of it I read I had to dilute it by reading a few chapters of the original. The first page was pretty amusing (she kills of two charcters in as many lines) on a level of suspended belief but everything else about it is atrocious.
After studying Austen for several years, I have to say that I picked up just a little information about regency life in general, I fail to see, therefore, how it is possible for Emma Tennant to have gone so wildly astray. She makes glaring historical inaccuracies, regarding marriage laws and general social standards.
Besdies all this she commits (once again) the unforgivable crime of completely changing the personalities of characters we have learnt to love in the original. Emma Woodhouse seems to have forgotten everything she learnt in the first book and has become a coward besides.
Anyone who still wants to read the book look away from the following *SPOILERS* showing just how dreadful this book is:
- Emma and Knightley have not consumated their marriage after a year, yeah right.
- Frank Churchill ditches Jane Fairfax at the altar, after all that bother in the original.
- Emma turns into a lesbian. Yes. Really.
Take my advice and just go back and read the original again, or try writing your own sequel, it will be better.
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