Flirty and fashionable, Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg is a sapphic retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Liz Baker is an often impulsive but organized Leo who loves her buddies, enjoys her job and sees the intense aspect of virtually any scenario. She’s even acquired a optimistic outlook on the information that the queer journal the place she works, The Nether Fields, is about to close down. After 4 years of writing intercourse and relationship recommendation articles, she’s trying ahead to beginning the novel she’s all the time needed to put in writing. But there’s an enormous draw back, too: Liz and her three roommates face is that all of them work at The Nether Fields, and the likelihood of all 4 of them discovering new employment and paying their payments is slim, to say the least. Fortunately, a pair of rich lesbians swoop in on the eleventh hour to avoid wasting the day.
Daria Fitzgerald is a reserved, no-nonsense businessperson with a eager thoughts to match her sharp fits. She’s the exact opposite of her fellow investor in The Nether Fields, Bailey Cox, whose open, pleasant character and enthusiastic outlook put many of the staffers relaxed. But Daria is unimpressed by Liz’s laundry-day get-up of cargo pants and a cardigan, assured that Liz’s private type displays a lazy skilled ethic. Oh, how improper she is.
Like Austen, Kellogg makes astute observations about social class, bias and the power to be present in friendships. She cannily updates the organic Bennet sisters into the discovered household of Liz and her roommates however maintains the basic opposites-attract dynamic of the unique novel: Reserved and clearly rich, Daria instantly butts heads with daring, sensible and working-class Liz. Their journey to understanding is well worth the chatty and introspective journey, and Austen followers will recognize Kellogg’s intelligent adjustments to the beloved supply materials.
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