Review: Big stretch of the imagination
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
The title of this book was off-setting but the price of $.99 plus reading the sample caused me to take a chance.  I expected it to be erotica but it was not.  There is some sex after marriage in the final pages.  While it kept my attention, I didn't find that I could even imagine some of the situations described therein.  For Col Fitzwilliam or the Bow Street Runner not to recognize that Eli/Elisha was a woman?  For Darcy to lust after the rear-end of a young man upon opening his library door?  And the whole situation with Elizabeth/Eli on a trip on horseback...relieving herself in the woods would have blown her cover much more quickly than Darcy being able to distract Col. Fitzwilliam and others.  Then the event of Eli saving Lady Clarissa?  The whole convoluted story/stories to be told to Mr. Bennet, to be told to Georgina, to be told to the public vs the gossip deliberately spread or encouraged just got to be..."What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."  I kept in mind that the tale is to resemble the farces/comedies "Some LIke it Hot" and "As you like it" but can't say that I am sold!