diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_whoficcom.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_whoficcom.py
index 4426860..c92a1d7 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_whoficcom.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_whoficcom.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class WhoficComSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
         # link instead to find the appropriate metadata.
         a = soup.find('a', href=re.compile(r'reviews.php\?sid='+self.story.getMetadata('storyId')))
         metadata = a.findParent('td')
-        metadatachunks = self.utf8FromSoup(None,metadata).split('<br />')
+        metadatachunks = self.utf8FromSoup(None,metadata,allow_replace_br_with_p=False).split('<br />')
         # process metadata for this story.
         self.setDescription(url,metadatachunks[1])
         #self.story.setMetadata('description', metadatachunks[1])
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
index 44767a0..838d24b 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
     # This gives us a unicode object, not just a string containing bytes.
     # (I gave soup a unicode string, you'd think it could give it back...)
     # Now also does a bunch of other common processing for us.
-    def utf8FromSoup(self,url,soup,fetch=None):
+    def utf8FromSoup(self,url,soup,fetch=None,allow_replace_br_with_p=True):
         if not fetch:
             fetch=self._fetchUrlRaw
 
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
         # This is primarily for epub updates.
         retval = re.sub(r"</?(html|head|body)[^>]*>\r?\n?","",retval)
         
-        if self.getConfig("replace_br_with_p"):
+        if self.getConfig("replace_br_with_p") and allow_replace_br_with_p:
             # Apply heuristic processing to replace <br> paragraph
             # breaks with <p> tags.
             retval = replace_br_with_p(retval)