This completed version of Sandition is vastly inferior to the version published by Anne Telscombe & Marie Dobbs.
The liberty taken with the narration style!! Austen brought indirect dialogue to life, but she did not adress the "reader" directly, using a misguided attempt at humor, falling flat because we don't side with the joke.
We love Prinny, but he has no place in this book. Austen would never have mentioned him, especially not while calling him Prinny.
Shapiro doesn't write a lot more than the original book, but when she does... Anachronism after anachronism... From reference to psychological terms to mentions of people - I kid you not - kissing just after becoming engaged, yes, kissing, written explicitely on page. Completely ridiculous.
Charlotte was given too short a story, leaving the romance arc underdevelopped & the characters having learned nothing, not owning up to their misguided prior behavior.
The rest of the book, though. Pure fantasy. An outlandish tale about the serving class which would have never been written by Austen.
Altogether, this was very disappointing.
I recommand you not read it. Read the other one.