You bet. What about pugs—can Pride and Prejudice handle pugs? There are currently books on this list. What a time to be alive. Is he a pirate or is he just heartbroken? After Elizabeth turns Darcy down, he escapes to London where he turns to the drink and hangs out by the docks.
Fifteen-year old Callie buys herself a pair of red Prada heels and is pumped to finally be a grown-up woman. But then she falls and hits her head and, strangely enough, lands back in the year She meets Emily, who mistakes her for a long-lost cousin, and takes her in.
Maybe her Pradas turn into a pumpkin? Darcy are detectives. Regency England is a private high school. Lizzie is there on scholarship and her BFF is named Jane. Jane wants Chris Bingley, just back from a semester abroad, to take her to the dance. As promised, Mr. Collins is a truly despicable character. The book is darkly funny and darkly romantic, and a good afternoon's read. I recommend the story to anyone who enjoys JAFF. Aug 11, Nicole Marie rated it really liked it Shelves: p-and-p , favourites , novellas-and-short-stories , kindle-unlimited , jaff , austenesque-lovers-challenge , favourites , review-on-amazon.
An exciting variation that you will not be able to put down. Would liked to have more of a conclusion for Jane though - loved her in this and the direction I assumed it was heading!
Oct 09, James S rated it really liked it. I will describe the feel of the story. All emotions are felt by the readers. All the horrible horrifying events, all the care of others, all the happiness and love feels real.
There are times where urgency is needed and the reader feels the urgency of the characters. There are times where thins proceed slowing and the characters and the story reflects those times and lets us feel the pace. Good read. Sep 11, Sheila Majczan rated it really liked it.
But now the tale varies. Several other reviews tell us that both Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy have a relative who, in this story, seem to have the forces of evil push them to act ignoble, even cruel and murderous. And, part of what is a grievous secondary concern The first being physical injuries. So how to help the one lady heal, get back her memory or should we hope she never remembers the assault and identify the perpetrator.
And keep it all hush-hush! The few who know what has happened are divided in their tasks. So there is a mystery to be solved and certain family members cannot be kept in the dark. Bennet is summoned from Longbourn; while Jane is notified at Gracechurch Street.
Bingley also arrives but not necessarily for the same reasons. And the Colonel is there with Darcy for the annual visit to Rosings, so he is in on what is happening. You have to love the scene when Jane is in the Hunsford Parsonage and Darcy arrives. Yes, she steps up and slaps him as hard as she can and…then, she slaps him again. To him Jane is a reminder of the Norse Goddess, Freyja, a goddess who also makes an appearance as a valkyrie in mythology.
Perceptive and sage Jane!!! We additionally read of an Anne who in sitting quiet as a mouse is actually taking it all in and making her own decisions and judgments about what she hears and sees. Trent, having been hired by Darcy to treat Anne, lives next to the parsonage and is on call and at the front in diagnosing what has happened. Trent is one of the good guys so keep an eye on him. The author gives us very satisfying consequences to bad acts in her story but at the end I felt sold short.
I wanted more than what I thought was an abrupt conclusion. But overall this was a story which kept my attention and gave me a satisfactory tale. Sep 04, Sheryl Gordon rated it really liked it. Black sheep with a cleric's collar A well written variation that switches up the story immediately following an unseen Hunsford. Some clever and convincing changes make this a fast and inviting read. To the author, I would have enjoyed a more thorough epilogue chapter, but I suppose I can fill in most the leftover spaces.
Good dialogue and a brisk pace. Jul 25, Jenny rated it really liked it. This variation gets off to a really explosive start. When Elizabeth returns to the parsonage she encounters Collins who sees the letter from Mr Darcy.
He sees this as an opportunity for himself as this can only mean Elizabeth has no morals - afterall Mr Darcy would never make an offer for her. This leads to a sexual assault and Elizabeth flees the scene before falling and injuring herself. She is unconscious for a time and in that period the Colonel, Darcy and others look to piece together to fi This variation gets off to a really explosive start. She is unconscious for a time and in that period the Colonel, Darcy and others look to piece together to find out who assaulted Elizabeth.
In the meantime time Collins has Lady Catherine's ear - and gives her Darcys letter. This book has a real pace and there are some brilliant moments. Collins is horrible - but his behaviour is not beyond the realm of possibility. Lady Catherine is vile and her showdown with Darcy is brilliant. The colonel is lovely and poor old Darcy soon discovers everyone knows he is in live with Elizabeth and he makes no effort to hide it! The biggest surprise is Jane. I didnt quite like the explanation of her feelings about Bingley - I don't think Elizabeth would have got this wrong - but it allows Jane's story to go in a different direction which i really liked.
The only complaint I really have about this book is that the end was too fast. A lot had to happen to bring Darcy and Elizabeth - and some other couples - together. It just felt a bit quick and I don't think there was enough about Jane's story to bring her tale to a close in a way that felt satisfying.
I was given an audio copy this book from the author with no promise if a favourable review. Unusually, the audio version is narrated by the author. She has a nice style and pace and it's more if a reading than a performance - although some if the character 'voices' are different from each other, they aren't particularly distinct.
I quite like this style as it's quite difficult to get the voices right - especially women doing male voices and vice versa, so this style solves that problem! It's an easy listen and it's not too long - just less than 4 and a half hours so it's not too difficult to find the time to listen either!
Oct 26, Susanne rated it really liked it Shelves: fan-fiction , historical-fiction. A wonderful follow-up to one of my favorite variations of Pride and Prejudice, Infamous Relations is the backwards follow-up to The Best of Relations in which Elizabeth's Aunt Gardiner was portrayed as a distant cousin to Mr. Darcy but one which he respected. However, in Infamous Relations , we see both Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine at their very worst, causing Elizabeth great harm.
I very much enjoyed this different story which is set mostly at Hunsford in Kent when Elizabeth visits Charlotte C A wonderful follow-up to one of my favorite variations of Pride and Prejudice, Infamous Relations is the backwards follow-up to The Best of Relations in which Elizabeth's Aunt Gardiner was portrayed as a distant cousin to Mr. I very much enjoyed this different story which is set mostly at Hunsford in Kent when Elizabeth visits Charlotte Collins. After Mr.
Darcy's regrettable proposal, he seeks to give Elizabeth his letter of explanation, and there the story veers into an alternate reality in which we see the worst of both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy's relations. Definitely suspenseful, sometimes angsty, and an absolute page-turner, Infamous Relations is one of the most intriguing Pride and Prejudice "What If? Jan 23, Elin Eriksen rated it it was amazing.
I loved it! Made my heart pound and my hands tremble. The angst level is rather high and are not for the faint hearted. Hunsford, where this story unfolds, after receiving Darcy's letter Elizabeth hasten to the parsonage to escape the rain. Mr Darcy and the Colonel remains at Rosings to follow Elizabeth progress when they start t I loved it!
Mr Darcy and the Colonel remains at Rosings to follow Elizabeth progress when they start to suspect foul play. There are major character death but a couple of them well deserved. I removed a half star because I thought the ending lacked in romance. Oct 20, E Brookhouse rated it it was amazing. Really great! This story flows flawlessly and wraps up in a neat, tidy, happy package. I enjoyed it very much and would love to read more from Ms.
Dec 27, Lucy rated it liked it Shelves: ku , historical-fiction , , kindle-books , romance-historical , romance. Mr Collins is out of character in this variation compared to the main novel but since that is the turning point of this variation, I'm not going to mention it here. Bennet is comfortable with. On how the big pressure from Pride and Prejudice — the pressure to marry — still exists today. Obviously a woman's financial well-being does not hinge on getting married anymore as it did then; but at the same time there's certainly still social pressure to marry.
Especially if you get to the age of, say, 40, people might wonder why. They might think: Are you not married because you don't want to be? Or are you not married because you couldn't meet the right person? Did you want children? And so I think that Mrs. Bennet has a pretty unattractively old-fashioned view of the world, and she has five daughters who go from being in their early 20s to almost 40 and she's astonished that none of them have married.
And she has such a sort of conventional, retro view that she thinks that life is not complete unless you have found your husband. On how writing Eligible compared to writing American Wife , Sittenfeld's novel loosely based on the story of former first lady Laura Bush.
There are parallels between the two experiences of writing American Wife and writing Eligible. And I mean, obviously, I took huge creative liberties in both cases, but there was a sort of architecture to the story. Yet, the story suggests, sometimes those who appear most strange or foreign are most trustworthy, while those who accommodate may merely be slick. When Khalid spots Ayesha at a lounge and mistakenly assumes she is drinking, he judges her within earshot, before falling in love while watching her perform a poem.
Hijinks ensue, propelled by a cast of wonderfully drawn comedic supporting characters. Masood, a wrestler and life coach, courts Ayesha in a clever modernization of the oafish clergyman Mr. Collins, who relentlessly proposes to Elizabeth. Imam Abdul Bari, the wise spiritual guide at the local mosque, is just the sort of clergyman quietly fighting the good fight who all but disappeared from contemporary literature in the 20th century. Will someone please write these guys back into our stories?
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