Review: Enjoyable, but not very believable.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
This is a short book so one can't expect very complex plot development or a lot of layering and, indeed, the story happens in one setting and within a very short period of time. Not much more could have happened than that which did happen.My main problem is that I am unconvinced that what Kitty and Fitzwilliam feel for each other is much more than infatuation or that Kitty (who is so young in every sense) could so rapidly bowl over a war-weary, mature and experienced man of 30 who is going through a difficult re-adjustment to civilian life. It seems to me that he needed a little sweetness in his life right then and Kitty was sweet and she needed a little confidence boost and he provided it. Making this out to be a full-fledged love story is a bit of a stretch--no matter how natural the other characters in the story perceive it.In a story in which you go from meet to marry in so few pages you really appreciate the effort that the author made to make the story interesting and to include so many of the P&P; characters we know and love. But it was impossible for me, as a reader, to believe that they are right for one another or are going on to have a happy and compatible marriage.