Emma is not my favorite Jane Austen plot but I’d recently seen a movie adaptation and figured I’d give this book a shot. Alas, I was let down!! The writing style made Kamila come across as a condescending, somewhat controlling busybody. She wasn’t irredeemable by any stretch, but the first 70 pages were a fairly close facsimile of Emma so I was a bit bored by that and Kam was just kinda a know it all that I wasn’t rooting for. 

I skipped ahead bc I wanted to get to the iconic line of “if I loved you less…” bc that line alone is mostly why I picked up the book. Boy was that a big disappointment!!!!! I was aghast. It at least seemed like a fair amount of interesting things were happening around page 275 (not interesting enough for me to keep going but still I’m glad I skimmed that portion) and then the iconic line was buried in the midst of a long apology speech from Rohan about some of his actions that deeply hurt Kam and he said “If I loved you less, I’d be able to explain myself more.” Which simply does NOT hold the same weight or romance of the original. After that I angrily DNFed.