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A review by thearomaofbooks
Pride, Prejudice and the Perfect Match by Marilyn Brant
DNF around 25%.
1. It's not a P&P retelling just because everyone has names from the original story.
2. Not a huge fan of stories where the problem isn't that they don't understand each other, but that they've literally and purposely started out by lying to each other.
3. Already completely over Beth's college research on "confirming male gender stereotypes," not because I don't believe those stereotypes exist, but because of how incredibly insistent she is that they are 100% negative, and that finding a man with those stereotypes automatically makes him a jerk. Legit her list starts with "greater size and strength"... I'm sorry, that isn't a stereotype, it's an actual scientific fact that the majority of men have greater size and strength than the majority of women...??? And being better at spatial/mathematical skills is negative because...??? Her list of seven things *are* typical of males, but I don't understand why she is acting like if she finds a guy who fits them, she will have found a horrible person. Being a jerk is what makes you a jerk, not being independent and competitive.
It's possible that by the end of the book Beth Ann matures and comes to realize that being goal-oriented and valuing the rational over the emotional aren't negative stereotypes, but are in fact an excellent balance for the stereotypical female's tendency to multitask and value the emotional over the rational, but I doubt it, and I really don't want to spend any more time listening to these two lie to each other just to find out.
1. It's not a P&P retelling just because everyone has names from the original story.
2. Not a huge fan of stories where the problem isn't that they don't understand each other, but that they've literally and purposely started out by lying to each other.
3. Already completely over Beth's college research on "confirming male gender stereotypes," not because I don't believe those stereotypes exist, but because of how incredibly insistent she is that they are 100% negative, and that finding a man with those stereotypes automatically makes him a jerk. Legit her list starts with "greater size and strength"... I'm sorry, that isn't a stereotype, it's an actual scientific fact that the majority of men have greater size and strength than the majority of women...??? And being better at spatial/mathematical skills is negative because...??? Her list of seven things *are* typical of males, but I don't understand why she is acting like if she finds a guy who fits them, she will have found a horrible person. Being a jerk is what makes you a jerk, not being independent and competitive.
It's possible that by the end of the book Beth Ann matures and comes to realize that being goal-oriented and valuing the rational over the emotional aren't negative stereotypes, but are in fact an excellent balance for the stereotypical female's tendency to multitask and value the emotional over the rational, but I doubt it, and I really don't want to spend any more time listening to these two lie to each other just to find out.