"You have such beautiful childbearing hips," Collins said the moment said the moment they stepped into the center of the room, apparently managing to think of the worst possible thing to say.

1. Trying to write in the style of Jane Austen is difficult, so the writing being slightly modern was no concern to me. However, it wasn't consistent throughout the book, with some chapters leaning into that old style of writing while others reading completely like a modern contemporary romance book.
2. The insta-romance between Oliver and Darcy in their first meeting during the fair was what irked me as it completely threw off the pacing of the development between the two. I had adored Pride and Prejudice because of the longing, pining, and slow burn and the back and forth banter. Diha palang sugod nawadan na kog gana and giatay kabalo na ka asa siya padulong
3. To elaborate on 2, Darcy was completely different person with Oliver when he's not dressing as his mother wishes him to. And while it can most likely be that Darcy is a boykisser from the get-go (/lh), it once again undoes the core theme of the original work wherein Darcy has to face his own pride and prejudice and come to terms with his feelings and expressions.
4. The changes with the side characters personalities was polarizing. I adored how Charlotte was also queer and with a flourishing love life of her own - but I absolutely detested the blatant villainization of Collins the moment he was introduced. I don't recall him being as outwardly infuriating and degrading in the original novel - he was more of a buzzing fly interrupting the daily lives of the Bennets - but his first few lines in this novel was painting him out to be a bigger threat than he had been in the original novel.