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DARCY'S STORY is the Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE retold from the point of view of its hero, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Its style is much the same as the original, however, I found author Janet Aylmer's voice less able to wrap itself around the intracacies of 18th century verbosity than the story's original author. This was not unexpected, given our language's present tendency to speak in sound bites. Overall I found the novel a refreshing take on a story I have loved for some time.

Not sure I liked this. Writing a bit stilted. Too much of Austen's dialogue repeated to make this book truly original. I was really hoping Aylmer would delve much more into Darcy's thought process and give some new insights. A couple of new scenes; that did redeem it for me somewhat. I'd like to read more take offs on P&P to see how those books fare.

Terrible retelling of Pride and Prejudice - the worst of the dozens that have been written. The author basically paraphrases the original novel, without adding much of anything new or enlightening in regard to Darcy's perspective.

I found I could not delve into this book as much as I had hoped. The writing style is rushed and not at all like I had expected. I didn't mind the quotations from P&P as much, if only there had been more of the author's words in it as well. You don't really get a good picture of Darcy's thoughts and feelings, you just learn that first he goes here, then he talks to Bingley about this and every happens exactly as they had discussed. The story lacks an emotional connection with the reader. If Aylmer had taken more time with it and included more conversation and thoughts of Darcy, it would have been better. Not the best Jane Austen spin off I've read. I suppose having first read the "Fitzwilliam Darcy, A Gentlemen" series by Pamela Aiden, I was biased against this book. By far, Aiden's series is better. I was disappointed in this one.

This book was great. The author stayed true to the original story while at the same time giving us Darcy's perspective on everything. I loved how she didn't try to overdo the concept, making Darcy all knowing. Things that happened to Elizabeth that Darcy didn't know about, stayed that way. It was a refreshing look at the greatest love story of all time.

Some interesting details were added, but much was repeated from the original story.