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Summary: An Unequal Marriage, Or, Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years La
Review: At first, I was so excited when I found this book. I was eager to read a sequel to P&P. However I was soon dissapointed! I wish I had never read this book. Jane Austen would have been greatly offended by this sequel!
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Summary: Enjoyable romp - if you liked Pemberly
Review: I found An Unequal Marriage to be a fun continuation of the story of Pride and Prejudice, if rather melodramatic. Elizabeth and Mr Darcy continue to live *not quite* happily ever after due to miss-communication - but of course it all turns out alright in the end!Caution: if you have read and *hated* Pemberly (as so many people who reviewed the book did), you will probably despise An Unequal Marriage for the same reasons.
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Summary: ...wipe off the bad taste...
Review: I love P&P and while I am realistic enough to know that no one can write like Jane Austen. However, in the spirit of Austen and having read that Elizabeth was a favorite of hers I would think that better things were in store for the Darcys. This book was so repulsive and disgusting I couldn't even look at it! I could barely finish it. I had to read the original a few times to get myself back on track. Think of it this way, The Bar Sinister and Presumption were better and that's saying a good bit. I am following my conscience and the opinions of other readers---I am staying away from Emma Tennant!
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Summary: ...wipe off the bad taste...
Review: I love P&P and while I am realistic enough to know that no one can write like Jane Austen. However, in the spirit of Austen and having read that Elizabeth was a favorite of hers I would think that better things were in store for the Darcys. This book was so repulsive and disgusting I couldn't even look at it! I could barely finish it. I had to read the original a few times to get myself back on track. Think of it this way, The Bar Sinister and Presumption were better and that's saying a good bit. I am following my conscience and the opinions of other readers---I am staying away from Emma Tennant!
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Summary: Classic Style, Unequaled Elegance
Review: Praise for AN UNEQUAL MARRIAGE cannot be too highly lavished upon this stylish sequel to the beloved PRIDE AND PREJUDICE of Miss Jane Austen. Author Emma Tennant not only writes in the correct 19th-century style, she also breathes fresh life into what many other writers have attempted: the perfect conclusion to Darcy and Elisabeth's dilemma. The situation in AN UNEQUAL MARRIAGE is the inevitable outcome of the situation Austen set up. A wry, true and readable classic in its own right.
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Summary: Poor Excuse
Review: This book is unbelivable. Lizzy and Darcy's oldest son is like another Wickam. Which would never happen if Jane A had written the book .This is the second book of Emma Tennant's that I have read the first being Pemberly, and I am not impressed in the least. She is a disgrace to the proffesion of being a author. She should be publically disgraced.
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Summary: The Darcy's On The Outsiees
Review: This is not for die hard Jane Austen fan,or maybe even jut a mild admirers. I enjoyed the book to the degree that it was very real in a sense. Sometimes now matter how hard you root for a couple they just don't make it. I could live without some parts but it is just one person's outlook and when you compare this with some of the other sappy sequels(I have read 14 so far) it is better than some and worst than others. I would softly reccomend it
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Summary: Miss Bingley must have written this book!
Review: What a Horrible, HORRIBLE book! The sitcom-esq ending where everything is wrapped up in the last 3 pages as all a big misunderstanding do nothing to save this book. After 19 years of marriage Elizabeth and Darcy are "sooo" much in love, that is until they receive some bad news, and Darcy concludes that he made a mistake in perusing Elizabeth after he learned of her family's insanity all those years ago. AND TELLS HER SO! Elizabeth, in turn, realizes that Darcy is a "monster," and wishes for equality of the sexes so that she may get a divorce. Her realization of her superior character is what inspires the title of "an unequal marriage." This also leads her to become bitter about Jane's happiness. Of the 180 so pages of this book over 170 are dedicated to the hatred and resentment of the Darcys. This book is written from bitterness and contempt of love. It has nothing to do with the original sentiments of Austin, and is uninteresting and depressing in its own right. The shortness of the book make it undeveloped and do nothing to justify the stream ill events and bad feelings. The book only serves as a laundry list of bad happenings and despair only to have the curtain whipped aside at the very end to say "silly Elizabeth, none of that's true - now lets go to Italy and be Rich!" All of the fair-weather love and weak loyalties are supposed to be forgotten in the end pronouncement of an undying and strong love. This sentiment is our reward for wading through the dreadfulness of the book. Silly reader! Don't waste your time, money or good feelings on this wretched excuse for a story of love.
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Summary: better than Pemberly, but still lacking
Review: _Pemberley_, this author's first pseudo-sequal to _Pride and Prejudice_, was a shamefully bad book, and a horrid disappointment to Jane Austen fans. This author's second try is a bit better, and the Austen fan will probably be able to go five chapters or so before putting the book down in distaste. While it's slightly more polished, it's still an abominable mishandling of the characters found in the original _Pride and Prejudice_. I recommend passing on this book. Austen was an artist. This author is not.
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