P&P is one of my favorite books and so I was ecstatic to find this queer reinterpretation. I loved it even more than I already loved P&P, but for one element: the incessantly frequent reminders of how miserable queer people would have been at the time. While I know that for many it would have been true (as it is for many still today) that they lived in secrecy, with fear of being publicly exposed and thus outcast and possibly worse, like...I just didn't want to have to encounter that over and over in what was otherwise a fun improvement of a favorite novel.