Tag: Pride and Prejudice

  • REVIEW of The Unreformed Mr. Darcy by Lin Mei Wei

    REVIEW of The Unreformed Mr. Darcy by Lin Mei Wei

    Lizzy has an impossible choice before her. Her sister Jane, abandoned by Mr. Bingley (due to Mr. Darcy’s interference), has attracted an odious new (rich!) suitor whom Mrs. Bennet is pressuring her to marry. Unwilling to let her sister be the sacrificial lamb, Lizzy decides to accept Mr. Darcy’s insolent proposal at the Hunsford Parsonage.…

  • REVIEW of Mr. Darcy and the Murder at Rosings by Lin Mei Wei

    REVIEW of Mr. Darcy and the Murder at Rosings by Lin Mei Wei

    After Lizzy rejects Mr. Darcy’s haughty proposal, she looks forward to his immediate departure from Rosings so that the awkwardness can abate. A violent storm, however, traps all the inmates of Rosings (along with Lizzy and the Collins) at the house. When a footman is discovered murdered in the gun room, Mr. Darcy takes charge…

  • REVIEW of What Kitty Did Next by Carrie Kablean

    REVIEW of What Kitty Did Next by Carrie Kablean

    It is a truth universally expected that once three Bennet sisters achieved matrimony, Mrs. Bennet would turn her attention to the matrimonial prospects of the remaining two. In this Pride and Prejudice continuation, the author explores the life of the fourth Bennet sister, Kitty. Now freed from Lydia’s orbit, what will silly and insipid Kitty…

  • REVIEW of Mary B.: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice, by Katherine J. Chen

    REVIEW of Mary B.: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice, by Katherine J. Chen

    The premise of this book was interesting: to tell the story of the forgotten middle sister Mary from Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. The first part of the book was engaging–Mary’s ill-fated interest in Mr. Collins and misapprehension of his character was well-portrayed. But once the events in the final chapter of the original…

  • REVIEW of Longbourn, by Jo Baker

    REVIEW of Longbourn, by Jo Baker

    The premise of this book was appealing to me, and I found the book itself to be executed moderately successfully. In Longbourn, Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is retold through the eyes of the servants in the Bennet household. Sarah, the housemaid who has been serving there ever since she was orphaned at the…