So. While visiting Kayte & co., we went to a secondhand store and on the nautical shelf, we encountered this book. Two Hundred Men, One Woman by Nancy Price.

Naturally, I had to buy it for the excellent title alone. Best $5 I ever spent. I also promised Kayte, Bee and Fawkes that I would liveblog this book. Because it is already Quality Literature, I thought I would share the love for all. I will be posting updates as I go, feel free to comment/ask questions/do dramatic readings/whatever if you have feelings about this masterpiece <3

Accordingly, there will be spoilers in this thread. In case anyone else had this on their TBR.

BUT THUS IT BEGINS.

This is a Regency romance (possibly erotica? remains to be seen) published in 2009. (Also it has illustrations.) We all saw the name of the ship on the cover, HMS Persuasion, and this was funny for obvious (cough Netflix cough) reasons.

Things I didn't fully realise until I opened the book properly: the ship name was not just a respectful nod to Jane Austen in general, queen of the regency romance. No. Nooooo. The main character of this is one Sophia Wentworth.................. the Frederick Wentworth's sister. This is Persuasion fanfiction, y'all. To badly paraphrase chapter 49 of Moby Dick, the whole universe is a joke and I am the punchline. Help.

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