If you're doing a reboot of a classic, it needs to be better than the original, with characters that have the same personalities. This wasn't right. The characters were way too nice to each other. In the original, the younger Bennet girls are silly, Mr Collins is pretty unpleasant, Lady Catherine de Bourgh is self-important, Mr Bingley's sisters are pretentious, etc. Basically, every character is complex and difficult and has different motivations and emotions, while in Heartstone they're pretty bland. There are no surprises, the story is not compelling, and it made me long for the original. Where's the wit and sparkling dialogue? The fascinating characters that make you go back to the book again and again? 
 Not here. 
 Maybe I would have preferred this book if it wasn't a rip-off of Jane Austen's work, but because it is, you have to compare the two. This is just fan fiction, and I didn't enjoy it.