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The Truth About Mr. Darcy (2011)

by Susan Adriani(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1402246137 (ISBN13: 9781402246135)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Sourcebooks Landmark

review 1: I have a weakness for Pride and prejudice re-imaginings/fanfic. I can't help myself. I see one, I buy one. This book was not so much a re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice as it was a series of sexcapades starring a guy named Fitz and a girl named Lizzie. Nothing in these characters felt true to the books. Darcy was bad, but Lizzie? Everything that made Elizabeth Bennet great was undone and she turned into a girl who cried over every little insult and tried to break an engagement because someone said something mean to her about it. Least forgivable, surprisingly, was the character assassination of Charlotte Lucas. It is one thing for Charlotte to want to marry for comfort and security, disregarding love etc. It's another thing entirely for her to marry a bitter, vicious man... more with no regard to propriety who actively seeks to destroy her best friend. And then invite said best friend to the wedding! Everything about this book was terrible for me. And it was much, much too long.
review 2: My guilty pleasure is reading anything related to Pride & Prejudice, particularly "what if" scenarios. Susan Adriani's debut novel is refreshing and thought provoking. What if Mr Darcy had come down off his horse that day in Meryton when he saw Wickham speaking with Elizabeth and her sisters-- and later tells her & her father of Wickham's character? That is this story. I love how Adriani fleshes out all of Jane Austen original characters in this rendering & how diversions from canon set an entirely different tone, taking us on a sometimes "brow raising" journey. You need not have read the original to follow, as this novel clearly stands on its own. The purists may roll their eyes but "the person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." I am pleased to own and have in my collection. For mature eyes only less

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