Pride and Prescience by Carrie Bebris

Pride and Prescience by Carrie Bebris

(a truth universally acknowledged)

A Mr and Mrs Darcy Mystery

This story starts where Pride and Prejudice finished with the joint marriage of Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.

Almost immediately Caroline Bingley steals the limelight at the wedding reception by announcing her own engagement to an American. A handsome American, charming, a gentlemen with a fortune and a plantation.

Elizabeth can not help but wonder what he see’s in Miss Bingley, but they do appear very much in Love. As their wedding is set for one week, hence the honeymoon at Pemberley is put on hold to attend what Caroline is determined to make the society wedding of the decade.

From that point on this fast paced book plunges from one disaster to another, with Darcy and Elizabeth being drawn further and further into the awful events and ‘accidents’ that keep happening.

Elizabeth finds herself having to come to Caroline's aid time and time again and deciding who are the villains and who are the good guys is even causing  trouble between her and her new husband.

She can not help but feel there are dark arts and worse involved and he, a man of logic is totally blind to the terrible things happening before his very eyes.

After a murder at Netherfield all of the house guests come under suspicion.

Will Darcy & Elizabeth or Jane and Bingley make it out alive.

Great fun, lots of suspense, I am going to read North by Northanger by Carrie Bebris next.

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The Trails of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sara Angelini

The Trails of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sara Angelini

A Modern Pride and Prejudice

In this modern adaption of Pride and Prejudice, The Honorable F. Darcy is a fast tracked high powered judge, the youngest in the country.

He lives in a penthouse in San Francisco but still retains the family home of Pemberly in England.
He is just as proud, impatient and uptight as a Darcy should be.

Elizabeth is a keen young attorney working in the same court house. She is quirky and bright with a family as dysfunctional as ever.

She hates taking cases before the Honorable F. Darcy who is uncompromising and exacting. They spar in the courtroom while his best friend Charley Bingley falls for a Lamborghini Murcielago closely followed Jane Bennet.

Dr Charles Bingley is the pediatric surgeon at Meryton Hospital, Jane is doing her residency there also and is determined that Charles will notice her.

Several other characters are in the story of Elizabeth and Darcy’s battle from hate to passion and there are plenty of sparks and sexual tension and loads of graphic steamy sex, (even in an elevator between floors).

Caroline Bingley’s constant attentions to Darcy also doesn't help the on off relationship to get on the right track (don’t cheat and look it up first but on page 310 of this book were the most romantic lines I have read in a very, very long time they certainly put a lump in my throat).

This is a love story a steamy and passionate and stirring love story, read it and revel in the intensity.

Well done to Sara Angelini, we would all give our right arms for a Mr Darcy of our own to love us this passionately.

Pride/Prejudice by Ann Herendeen

Pride/Prejudice by Ann Herendeen

Pride / Prejudice. A Novel of Mr Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet and their Forbidden Lovers

In Ann Herendeens words ‘I felt there is a hidden story behind the one Austen shares with us, one she gives readers just enough clues to discover if we will”!

So what is it that Ann has read between Jane Austen’s lines?

Well, she has found Fitzwilliam Darcy to be a fairly brutal lover, and his victim is poor Charles Bingley.

When Charles, deeply in love with Jane Bennet spurns Mr Darcys very regular advances Darcy sulks out regularly with plots to split up his ‘special’ friend and Miss Bennet

His own growing fascination with Elizabeth does not stop him continuing with his sexual activities with the help of the other members of the ‘Brotherhood of Philander’ a boys only club for hedonistic spoilt aristocrats who definitely prefer the male form.

Now to balance this Ann Herendeen has made Elizabeth and Charlotte Lucas special friends as well, but does not draw their relationship in the same detail only using it to illustrate that both Lizzy and Darcy are selfish, both preferring to keep their lovers for themselves rather that worry about their happiness.

I found it pretty hard to like this Darcy and, Elizabeth was not that much better.

As for Lizzy and Jane happily allowing Darcy and Charles to continue their sexual activities under their noses during their marriages, hard to swallow.

One character easy to believe was Wickham, not much of a stretch to believe he would have sex with anyone if it was to his own advantage.

If you don’t like sex in your Austen then don’t read this and if a bi-sexual Darcy spoils your fantasies definitely don’t read this, however if these things don’t worry you, go for it, it was interesting.

Ann Herendeen has also written Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, A bi-sexual regency romance.

Pemberley Manor by Kathryn L. Nelson

Pemberley Manor by Kathryn L. Nelson

Darcy and Elizabeth For Better Or For Worse by Kathryn L. Nelson

This book starts at the Wedding of Mr Bingley to Jane Bennet and Mr Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet and as you would expect Caroline Bingley is hating every minute and Mrs Bennet’s nerves are in shreds.

The couples head out to start their married lives and the story follows Darcy and Elizabeth, we are led to understand that Darcy has had a troubled child hood with dark undercurrents that he does not understand and this leads to his massive swings in temperament, one minute blissfully happy and the next thundering tempers of the blackest kind and in another tears of weeping remorse.

I have to say in this day and age he would probably be pronounced bipolar and put on prozac or at the very least valium.

This does not stop it from being a ripping yarn, but, you can’t help feeling that Lizzy really has bitten off more than she can chew. Jane definitely having got the better deal.

My other problem is with Caroline Bingley who is quite as ruthless and horrid as she could be, but at the end of the story (and even though I hate to give story lines away) she goes through an epiphany and turns into a Jane Bennet.

Why? Jane Austen was happy to have rotters in her books, why do so many feel the need to turn the bad good ?

We allow Elizabeth to change Darcy for the better that’s what all women cherish (of getting a leopard to change his spots) but Caroline is a Bitch with a capital B, she is not going to change the habits of a life time whatever she has done.

Please leave the bad guys bad, I like them that way as I am sure do many others.