Austen, Jane Darcy
Swipes Left 114 pgs. Random House, 201 $9.99 Content: Language: PG13 (5 swears, but many
more in emoticon); Mature Content: PG Violence: G
A re-telling of the classic Pride and Prejudice told in
text-message format. Readers
discover the hatred turned romance of Lizzy and Darcy as they have various
meetings at dances and accidents and how they grown on one another. No one is left out with
a large cast of characters. Bright full color pages and lots of interesting photographs, acronyms, and
emoticons.
This complex plot is hard to describe, I have run into this
before with a manga re-telling of this same story. I LOVE this series and this
one was fantastic. This includes references to dating apps, since various characters’ swipe left when they want to turn down another character for a dance. Along with references to gold-diggers, running out of time to have
children, tons of emoticon style swears and of course, the overall dating and
marriage theme, this book is better off in the hands of high school students.
HS –ADVISABLE Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary School Librarian &
Author.
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1 comment:
In the spirit of Yolo Juliet, Carbone has once again told a complicated classic tale through text messages, emoticons and social media. An hilarious story from beginning to end - and so much funnier if you know the source material.
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