Showing posts with label Jane Odiwe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Odiwe. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

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.





Thursday, September 13, 2012

Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe


Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe

A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice ~ The continuing adventures of Mrs. Darcy's youngest sister


Though the cover of this book is an insipid pink, the contents are anything but.

I have been very keen to get my hands on this book as I thought Lydia was such an unpleasant and silly girl, it would be difficult to get the reader to care about her and what becomes of her.

But, this book stays true to Jane Austen’s horrible, thoughtless Lydia and yet takes you along on her journey from Longbourne to Brighton and into London with Wykham, then beyond Pride and Prejudice, continuing the story in a way that draws you in and makes you care, even though she is still very much the self absorbed Lydia we all love to hate.

She see’s her dreams and her heart broken and has to admit to some of her own faults, starting to grow up in rather extreme conditions.

In our world at 15-16 she would still be a child and forgiven a lot of her silliness.

Jane Odiwe weaves a great tale and Wykham is just as horrible, conceited and selfish as you would want him to be, there is a great twist in the story line which I would not dream of spoiling.

I certainly enjoyed this book and I am sure you will too.