After I finally read the original Pride and Prejudice this month, it was only fitting to read a queer retelling. The idea of Darcy and Lizzy both being gay and marrying as friends for convenience was attractive, and that cover is beautiful. Unfortunately, that's about all the good things I can say about this book.

Here's the thing: this book read as if the author took the original Pride and Prejudice and occasionally scribbled in some new sentences, maybe a couple of scenes, and exchanged some names. More than half of the book is word-for-word the exact same as the original. The love interest is changed from Mr Darcy to Miss Caroline Bingley, which is mostly shown by the fact that many of Darcy's original lines are said by Miss Bingley. Literally, the dialogue is almost the same with the names changed, and occasionally with a few sentences to hint at the characters being gay.

This is not quite what I expected from a retelling. Treating Darcy and Miss Bingley as basically interchangable was annoying, and while we did learn a little more about Miss Bingley's background, it was strange that this book kept all the same plotlines about Wickham and the others. In the end, this kind of felt like reading the same book twice.