Talk:Desire & Decorum, Book 1/@comment-27818075-20181105224707/@comment-27818075-20181106071915

StoryGirl83, yes, plagiarism. This book rips off from:

1) RoE (the 'marry a person till the end of the season' and 'be forced into an engagement because you LET IT HAPPEN' clichés); 2) a whole lot of films and books with the idea of 'low-born child stepping into high society and rocking it'. (What A Girl Wants is a film example, but there's many more of them). TRR is a ripoff of this cliché too. (PS: I was surprised not to see the moment when Sinclaire, Parsons, Harper, Chambers, Hamid and MC hang out together and become drinking buddies); 3) Pride and Prejudice (Sinclaire is a softer version of Mr. Darcy); 4) a whole lot of films and books with a 'dying parent' cliché.

If I read more novels by Jane Austen, perhaps I'd have found more ripoffs from her books, but for now I see only those that have been EVERYWHERE and make the series more boring that it could have been.