Mr Darcy’s Secret by Jane Odiwe

Mr Darcy’s Secret by Jane Odiwe

Can Darcy Trust Elizabeth With The Whole Truth?

Pride and Prejudice Continues

Another most enjoyable book!

Mr Darcy is now married and has Elizabeth in place as Mistress of Pemberley. But, his prideful and haughty behavior keeps surfacing. Especially when it comes to his sister Georgiana, he becomes completely stubborn and all Elizabeth’s pleas to Darcy not to push his sister into a loveless marriage go unheard. Worse still he causes an unpleasant rift between the newly weds.

In fact, Elizabeth must be thinking she has married in haste herself. (Yes he is that bad).

What is worse not only does Georgiana not want to marry her brothers choice but she has met someone else, someone her brother would not even consider as a suitable husband.

While all this is going on Elizabeth is being bombarded with comments, hints and anonymous notes all suggesting awful things about her husbands past.

And, although she tries very hard not to believe any of them, the evidence against him may be mounting, and, of course where there is trouble for Darcy, Mr Wickham is never far away with his blackmail schemes and trouble making.

So, what is the secret?

You will have to pick up your own copy of the book to find out.

The story constantly draws you in and it was very hard to put down.

See also My Review of Lydia Bennets Story by Jane Odiwe.

Wickham’s Diary by Amanda Grange

Wickham’s Diary by Amanda Grange

Jane Austen's Quintessential Bad Boy Has His Say...

Well I have to say I was a bit disappointed as I expected more from this book. It’s say’s Jane Austen’s quintessential bad boy has his say, so, I was expecting carousing, womanising, the fall of the country boy into a full blown rake and the inveterate gambler.

I was aware the book only covered up to Wickham’s attempted elopement with Georgina Darcy, but it was all rather tame and really does not so much show Wickham as a bad boy but more a sociopath.

He shows no empathy for others feelings, He genuinely believes he should have everything he wants with no effort on his part, of course he should marry an Heiress and have a country estate, he is pretty and his Mummy said so.

I just feel that there was so much more that could have been in this diary, and his elopement with Lydia Bennet.

It would have been fun to read about another human who also believes she deserves everything she wants and constant entertainment, I would have enjoyed the interaction between two people that believe so strongly that their hearts desires should be delivered straight into their hands.

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Also by Amanda Grange

Mr Darcy Vampyre 

Mr Darcys Diary

The Perfect Bride For Mr Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen

The Perfect Bride For Mr Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen

Mr Darcy obviously needs a good matchmaker... or two...

I started this book with huge expectations having really enjoyed Searching for Pemberly by the same author.

The Perfect Bride for Mr Darcy is another rerun of Pride and Prejudice but with some added characters. Central to the story is a plot with Anne de Bourgh who has with Georgianas help to try and make sure the stubborn  Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy get together and mend their differences.

Anne De Bourgh though very frail is very determined to help the cause of true love along, even when it means hours spent in tiring journeys and plenty of subterfuge.

Georgiana is a fairly bubbly and enthusiastic teenage only too keen to find the romance in any situation, with a huge love of the gothic novel (as an aspiring author herself) she is keen to have Elizabeth and her support as a permanent part of her family.

In this version Charles Bingley has a much larger family including an older brother who is a bit of a financial genius and aides Darcy as his partner in this search for Wickham and Lydia.

The other notable characters are Darcy’s ex-girl friends who turn up like bad pennies and Colonel Fitzwilliam’s older brother who is a total lush with a cutting tongue (not the first choice at a family re-union)

There is plenty in here to make it worth a read but I still feel that for me Searching for Pemberley is the better book. Read both & let me know what you think.

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Mr Darcy’s Little Sister by C. Allyn Pierson

Mr Darcy’s Little Sister by C. Allyn Pierson

Pride and Prejudice Continues...

Georgiana Darcy grows up and goes in pursuit of happiness and true love, much to her big brothers consternation

Yes, Yes, Yes. This is right up my street, great story, nice character interaction, good historical details and fast moving plots with some suspenseful moments.

Obviously, Georgiana tells this tale of her brothers marriage and her first season as she comes out as a debutant and is presented at Court to the Prince Regent.

A major issue for such a shy young lady but after a very harrowing and frightening ordeal, she finds herself to be far more courageous than she ever realised.

She also has her eyes opened to love, lot’s of nice little touches like Lord Byron and a nod to the Scarlett Pimpernel.

A real flavor of the period suffuses throughout this book, it especially highlights the disparity in woman’s rights. that the men could get away with doing almost anything to women and they and they and their families could do nothing about it as, the scandal of anyone finding out was even more damaging to the women and her family.

Being a young lady with a large dowery or title and estate  as is the case of Anne De Bourgh, with a minefield of potential fortune hunters and dissolute bad guys. And bad guys in this book are really pretty dam nasty.

This book has definitely leapfrogged up my list of Jane Austen Prequels and Sequels and is happily nestling near the very top.

C. Allyn Pierson (who also writes as Carey A. Bligard) will write more sequels as I for one will happily buy them and enjoy reading them.

http://callynpierson.com/