Review: Mr. Darcy wins again
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
I am a fan of Jane Austen's books, and I also like the alternate takes on the romance of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. They usually not an improvement on the original, but they are fun. This book is no exception.  It is well written and the characters are plausible. They are taken to a logical place implied but not reached by Austen. Mrs. Bennet is taken a step further away from being a self-centered histrionic to a malicious termagant. This is not really a stretch. Mr. Darcy is the unprideful gentleman he becomes at the end of the original from the time when he first starts to admire Elizabeth in "Pride and Prejudice". Elizabeth's unlikely infatuation with Wickham never occurs, and she is affected more intensely by her mother's spite, and less intensely by Darcy's careless slur. This book is a lovely conceit which I highly recommend to fans of the romance.