Angela H. (brideofspoon) reviewed on 7/29/2010 + 23 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

I didn't like this book at all. Darcy and Elizabeth do not resemble Jane Austen's original characters very much. They both seem a bit self-absorbed, and Elizabeth's sparkling wit from the original Pride and Prejudice is reduced to some immature teasing and irrational stubbornness. Their physical relationship takes up a large part of the book and it's actually boring, not exciting at all. He carried her to the bed, blah blah blah, skip ahead. Both D and E are constantly professing their love to each other in ridiculously high-flown language. They also both have the habit of saying things like "I have no words to express how much I love you" and then continuing in many words to express how much. There is little, if any, plot to speak of. A few minor events are interspersed in this 300-page, very uninteresting, excessively maudlin story of the beginning of Darcy and Elizabeth's marriage. I'm a sentimental person, but this nonsense was so fakey that I wanted to gag more and more as the book continued.

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