Kim (Mistry) -
The blurb on the back has NOTHING to do with this story, which described Mr. Darcy's cousin Fitzwilliam, his best friend and confidante, helping him to win over Lizzie Bennet.
The story itself starts off after the Darcy's return home from their 2 month honeymoon and continues with Lizzie's first pregancy.
The 2nd half of the book revolves around Fitzwilliam but even that is....just okay.
The characters which are so beloved are turned into 2 dimensional characters. Lizzie is an immature, shrieking, vase throwing fishwife and Darcy is an absolute doormat. What makes it all worse is Lady Catherine has become quite the mother figure, doting on "her boys" and being portrayed as a dotty old lady, though a few of her lines are pretty funny.
Some of the dialogue feels as though the author just couldn't get out of the 20th century, and if Fitzwilliam called Darcy "brat" one more time I was going to scream.
I kept reading, hoping it would get better, but truthfully, it didn't.
If you really want to read expanded versions of P&P and NOT be disappointed, try Carrie Bebris or Pamela Aidan.
The story itself starts off after the Darcy's return home from their 2 month honeymoon and continues with Lizzie's first pregancy.
The 2nd half of the book revolves around Fitzwilliam but even that is....just okay.
The characters which are so beloved are turned into 2 dimensional characters. Lizzie is an immature, shrieking, vase throwing fishwife and Darcy is an absolute doormat. What makes it all worse is Lady Catherine has become quite the mother figure, doting on "her boys" and being portrayed as a dotty old lady, though a few of her lines are pretty funny.
Some of the dialogue feels as though the author just couldn't get out of the 20th century, and if Fitzwilliam called Darcy "brat" one more time I was going to scream.
I kept reading, hoping it would get better, but truthfully, it didn't.
If you really want to read expanded versions of P&P and NOT be disappointed, try Carrie Bebris or Pamela Aidan.
