Review: And now for the other side of the story....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
Yes, as you read this is a very short prequel to a book, "Darcy and Elizabeth", which is to come out soon.  Whereas the first prequel "Attending a Ball" was Elizabeth's story, this is Darcy's.  We look at how his friendship with Bingley developed.  The author does a very credible job showing us how both men added to the development of this relationship: it was not just Darcy mentoring Bingley.And when you get Bingley you get his sister, Caroline.  We all assumed what her thoughts in JA's P&P; were about but here we read exactly how conniving she can be - going so far as to almost get a servant girl fired when Caroline eavesdrops on the girl's talking about the Darcy family's favorite picnic spot.  And Caroline just won't let that go as Georgiana, Mrs. Reynolds and Darcy plan a picnic spot in a different location!I thought the fact that Bingley was looking at 3 locations for his estate was a thoughtful addition.  We never had that in the canon but it only makes sense that you look at what the market has to offer.  Darcy's advice to him adds to our understanding of this friendship.The main negative about this book (and I do enjoy that it is a different variation, as I said in my review of the other prequel by this author) is that the last 10 to 20% of the books were almost the exact same wording - just from different points of view.  I do understand how that had to be but, in truth, I skimmed through that!  So we do have cliffhanger but in reading the preview for the book we know....aha! Didn't think I was going to reveal that, did you?