Angela H. (brideofspoon) reviewed on + 23 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
My complaint about this book is not the sex (although some of it is rather silly). My main complaints are 1) The author totally changes the characters and 2) the author abuses a thesaurus abominably.
Clever and kind Lizzy becomes ditzy and intolerant - to the point of extreme rudeness - of her ridiculous family members (in P&P she is annoyed by them but is not unkind). Reserved and honorable Darcy turns out to have a scandalous past. Others behaved very uncharacteristically, some to the point of having nothing in common with the originals but their names.
I will echo another reviewer by saying that if I had a dollar for every "betwixt" and "howbeit" in the book, I would be a rich woman. It seems Berdoll used many obscure words just for the sake of using them.
Most new characters and plots were uninteresting to me, so I did a great deal of skimming as I ploughed through the book (I was determined to get to the end, although I can't explain exactly why.). I don't recommend it.
Clever and kind Lizzy becomes ditzy and intolerant - to the point of extreme rudeness - of her ridiculous family members (in P&P she is annoyed by them but is not unkind). Reserved and honorable Darcy turns out to have a scandalous past. Others behaved very uncharacteristically, some to the point of having nothing in common with the originals but their names.
I will echo another reviewer by saying that if I had a dollar for every "betwixt" and "howbeit" in the book, I would be a rich woman. It seems Berdoll used many obscure words just for the sake of using them.
Most new characters and plots were uninteresting to me, so I did a great deal of skimming as I ploughed through the book (I was determined to get to the end, although I can't explain exactly why.). I don't recommend it.
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