The descriptions and adjectives were too heavy. I’m not sure if Zoboi wanted to make 100% sure that we knew this was not your bland white update of Pride and Prejudice. Let’s start with the “bad”, because overall this book was great! The only thing that gave me trouble at first was the over description in the first couple of chapters. OF COURSE THERE ARE GOING TO BE DIFFERENCES. The OG is about decently rich (aka they own land and make money from others, but poor compared to the really rich) British family and their neighborhood and this is about poor Haitin-Dominican family and their neighborhood. The OG is set in 1797, this is set in modern day Brooklyn (Bushwick, specifically). It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, but I knew I would get mad after I read the first one and it legit said “this is nothing like Pride and Prejudice, but maybe I’m wrong because I haven’t read it in a while.”ĭon’t get me wrong, there are major deviations from Pride and Prejudice, but how could there not be. It took a lot of effort not to read the Goodreads comments on this one.
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