Review: Absolutely Loved This!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
I am a huge, I mean HUGE Pride and Prejudice fan, as in, seen all the movies, read the books (multiple times!) and like retellings of the story fan. So of course I picked this one up, I mean how could I resist it and call myself a fan?At any rate, I was expecting to fall immediately in love with this and you know what? I didn't. I have no idea why, maybe because I wasn't quite sure if I was going to love Spring. She wasn't quite as loveable as my beloved Lizzie or maybe it was the modernization, I am not sure but, at any rate, I had to push through this one for a few chapters and I was starting to wonder if this was going to be one of those reads that really let me down. One that didn't live up to its hype. But, I hung in there and it wasn't too much longer before I really was able to dig in and start to like it and relate to Spring a little better.I would love to say that I connected with her but the fact of the matter is, I just didn't even though she has a lot of great traits I normally love in a heroine, she was smart, witty, feisty and even humorous at times. But, you know what?  It didn't matter because I loved the love story nonetheless and really, that is all that mattered because, believe it or not, I loved Henry Knightly (how clever using another Austen character for a name!). There was just something about the arrogant (sometimes cocky) boy that I loved. Maybe because I knew he was at some point going to redeem him self like all good Mr. Darcy's eventually do.Either way I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this very modernized tale of two people from very different social classes with very different views on the world coming together and creating one heck of a beautiful love story. This was so well done and is right up there with being one of my favorite retellings.