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Lit Reader
is 50% done
Elizabeth STILL has bad megrims 2 days out of 3, and we are treated to every excrutiating detail of her symptoms >> blurred vision, pain in her brow, pain in the back of her skull, weakness, diziness, unsteady feet, more pain, more muffled sounds, and on & on it goes for ENDLESS PAGES !
I can’t take it anymore, I hate this; can’t see the multy star ratings as honest of genuine here, be warned !
— Mar 09, 2026 06:02AM
I can’t take it anymore, I hate this; can’t see the multy star ratings as honest of genuine here, be warned !
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Lit Reader
is 81% done
80% in, they have just realized that E&D are star-crossed lovers that can’t touch each other because they trigger shattering earthquakes and dangerous tides that sink ships (ridiculous and disconnected from the previous magical setting about bushes and ancestral “boundaries”).
Only 20% left and no one really has a clue what’s going on, or what they are expected to do at all, as per sense, logic, or myth…
— Mar 09, 2026 02:38PM
Only 20% left and no one really has a clue what’s going on, or what they are expected to do at all, as per sense, logic, or myth…
Lit Reader
is 72% done
Everyone keeps mentioning how witty Elizabeth used to be, but clever Lizzy is not part of this story as far as we can read; every scene has been Elizabeth with a megrim, injured, insensible (fainting), or moaning her aches. There is not one scene in which she has been playful, lighthearted, or witty — Darcy cannot know she was witty, and can’t be surprised about her wit being gone or back (either way is moot)
— Mar 09, 2026 12:22PM
Lit Reader
is 68% done
Past 2/3 into the book and the author keeps having characters speaking in riddles; books that don’t offer answers, Elizabeth neurological decay, Darcy’s fake performative turmoil [ eye roll ]; a convoluted mix of boundaries, hedgerows, rotten grain, migraines, dizziness, a ghostly dog that does nothing, and cheap manufactured angst.
— Mar 09, 2026 08:58AM
Lit Reader
is 33% done
Every scene is HIGH TENSION is the most boring, inane, and artificial way ! Elizabeth’s ear rings, Darcy’s finger twitches, they are so rocused on their aches that the rest of the world is permanently out of focus = conversations around them are just noise, scenes develop with hardship and against the grain, dialogue is pure inuendo about something we are ignorant of — IRKSOME !!
— Mar 08, 2026 04:27PM
Lit Reader
is 30% done
Endless accounts of Elizabeth developing a mystery ear-ache when she hears Mr Collins speak. No explanation, not even humor about it !
— Mar 08, 2026 03:52PM
Lit Reader
is 21% done
1/5 into the tale and I am bored and sick to d e a t h of endless descriptions of the earth moving in powerful yet indiscriptible ways, strength draining out of Elizabeth or Darcy every time they lift a hand or a foot, and a magical mystery dog just watching and judging… is this story actually going somewhere or not ???
— Mar 08, 2026 05:59AM
Lit Reader
is 12% done
Slow pace, high tension, unnecessary build-up, a whiff of angst foe no reason. Stretching too long before explaining the magic here — too much effort setting an emotional tone, and very little magical world-building…
— Mar 07, 2026 07:31PM
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Mar 09, 2026 10:56AM
These comments remind me of the author's Measure of Trust where Darcy's medical symptoms and sufferings are described again and again in excruciating detail. He has a head injury and swelling - this is different from the one where he is paralyzed (also by this author).
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It sounds like she could have copy/pasted all the symptoms and sufferings from that book and just changed the pronouns/names from Darcy to Elizabeth. LOL
It’s not far-fetched to consider that once an author has a fixation (medical woes, landscape descriptions, random Regency-splaining), these quirks are passed over from book to book and seem copypasted, even as in the author’s mind they believe them to be genuine & spontaneous!I am still shocked that anyone would think that writing photo-realistic megrims is the way to go in order to deliver a groundbreaking Fantasy P&P (very ambitious & doomed to failure)…
