Rating: 
Summary: An Easy Read!
Review: Ick! I've bought every P&P sequel I could get my hands on, and this is the flattest and lamest of them all. Preachy, shallow, cardboard characters inhabit a drab world written for a second-grader. Drearily heavy emphasis on religion and morality with leaden dialogue leaves the characters as stick figures moving through stilted lines. The first couple of chapters are not so bad when viewed as window-dressing to Austen's masterpiece, but the authors should have ended the book there. It gets steadily worse and worse, to the point of being downright unreadable by the mid-way point. If you buy it, good luck getting through it.Instead, I'd highly recommend "Letters from Pemberley," or "The Diary of Henry Fitzwilliam Darcy," both of which are quick reads, but very sweet, satisfying, and well-done. I also enjoyed "Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman," which was a bit Harlequin Romance-ish, but still very entertaining.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing at best...
Review: Some novels try to mimic the same writing style as Austen, and some novels try to remain true to her plot or characters. This book does neither. The writing is "hokey" - I'm sorry I can't come up with a better word for it! While the authors go to great length to explain how they were true to the language of Jane Austen, they miss the mark entirely. Then you have the characters - while the names and places were the same (Mr. Darcy, Lizzy, Pemberley, etc.) there was very little likeness in how they were portrayed, not to mention a see-through plot. If you go into this book with the expectation that it is a stand alone historical romance, then you might not be let down by the final result, but if you are looking for a good follow-up to Janes Austen then don't bother, there are much better books out there!
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