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EAN num: 9781589392649
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Page Count: 236
Printing Date: September 15, 2002
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Newlyweds Mr and Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy begin their married life at Pemberley quite blissfully but it is not long before the tranquillity they relish is cut short by a series of traumas. The formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh makes little endeavor to hide her distain for her nephew’s wife. She is joined by Caroline Bingley, as sharp tongued and resentful as ever, in the shared amusement of criticising Elizabeth. But the new mistress of Pemberley soon has more pressing matters on her mind, the fact that she is carrying the Darcy heir being the most pleasant of them. The sudden return of her sister Lydia brings cause for concern. Alarming reports of a seduction, blackmail and the need to keep news of another’s confinement secret dampen even Elizabeth’s notoriously high spirits and Darcy shows his true character when faced with the most difficult decision of his life. Has he been softened by his love for Elizabeth or is his former remoteness about to be resurrected?
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I should start by saying that my biggest objection to this book was the awful grammar. I'll credit her with trying very hard to imitate Jane Austen's diction (to the point where she very frequently uses direct quote phrases from the book/movie where her own construction probably would have been better/clearer). That said, her sentence construction is worse than most fourth-graders I know, and her dialog is ridiculous.
Some examples:
"Your accomplishments Catherine Bennet, do they include music?" she did not see fit to await a reply but went on to reflect, "Your sister Eliza plays and sings tolerably well and of course Mary derives her own pleasure from the activity, are we to assume that your whole dear family are so masterful?" (I mean, seriously--ick! Missing commas, and the whole quote just sounds nothing like Caroline Bingley.)
Charlotte thought for a while, "I hope you do not mind us coming here unannounced, I feel it was so inappropriate." (Apparently Charlotte is thinking aloud?)
I think the most common error she made was in not using commas to separate injections from the rest of the sentence, so you'd have sentences like "If you don't stop chasing the officers Kitty none of us will have a good chance at marriage" (not a quote from the book). I agree with somebody else who wondered if this were a vanity press book, because it certainly has the feel of one!
There are also major plot points that just seem very strange. People act completely out of character and do things very inappropriate for the time and place. Lady Catherine and Caroline Bingley are over-the-top. Mary and Kitty may marry who Jane Austen implied that they would in her private letters, but they don't live the lives that Jane Austen declared that they would at the end of Pride and Prejudice (Kitty spending most of her time between the Darcys and the Bingleys, Mary staying at home--in fact, Kitty stays home and Mary goes to Rosings Park!). I think that changing the near futures that Jane Austen gave them in the book takes away from the fact that she did keep to the ultimate ends that Jane Austen gave them in her private letters.
[Spoiler warning, but truly necessary to illustrate one of the major plot flaws in the book. Don't read the rest of the review if you don't want a plot point revealed.]
Elizabeth and Darcy agree to raise a child who isn't their own alongside their own child, and pretend that the other child is their child's twin. This decision is made before either child has been born. The issue this raises for me is... what if the other child is a boy, and Elizabeth and Darcy's is a girl? The other child will inherit Pemberley! Not only that, but the child happens to be the child of Lydia and Wickham. Are we to believe that Darcy would truly let his estate be inherited away from his bloodline and by the child of Wickham? Oh, sure, we might think, no matter the child's parentage, he is still a person in his own right and genetics may have nothing to do with it, and if raised by Darcy and Elizabeth, might turn out perfectly well and be a good landowner and such. But that's speaking from a modern viewpoint. In Jane Austen's day, bloodline was worth a great deal. Adoption didn't really happen, and if a child was adopted or a ward of the landowner, he still didn't inherit. Darcy may have gotten over some of his pride, but not to that extent! And nobody seems to notice this potential problem... perhaps because the author knew that it wasn't going to end up coming up, due to the actual sexes of the two babies? I could certainly see them agreeing to raise the child, but never to keep up the deception of it being their own.
Ultimately, this is one of the worst Pride and Prejudice sequels I've read. Perhaps not the worst, and I did actually read it through to the end, but it's certainly far worse than the average (and the average writing in Jane Austen sequels is certainly not impressive).
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Shapiro's sequel to Jane Austen's P&P has several "interesting" diversions, especially those involving Lady Catherine's conversion. I love the fact that Col. Fitzwilliam and Anne are married, a fact I always assumed would happen. The author, generally, succeeds in capturing the language of the period, although it is so obvious that we no longer speak in such a manner as did Darcy and Elizabeth. That is a shame because the lack of dialogue in the original creates the story. It tells us things no narrator ever says about the characters. There are some errors in the characterization, but most readers will enjoy this extension of Austen most famous novel. It is not my favorite P & P sequel, but the reader will not feel cheated afterwards. A person should also look at Conviction, Pamela Aidan's triology, Darcy's Passions, or The Man Who Loved Jane Austen for satisfying "Austen" related pieces.
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While the plot could have been worse, it was tremendously forgettable. And while Shapiro used the Austen-era language well, could someone PLEASE get this woman an editor? There were commas where they were unnecessary, and the absence of them when they were needed. Sentences ran on and on and ON. She would do well to learn that it's quite acceptable to use a semicolon, somewhere, anywhere! I unfortunately cannot get past these egregious grammatical errors, because it made the book a headache to read.
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Was quite surprised how much i enjoyed this book! Is a wonderful continuation! I especially loved the way Mr. Darcy was portrayed;How his whole manner was'softened' by Elizabeths love & spirit. All of the characters I felt were done justice, & that Mr. Wickham was turned for good by Darcy?! Awesome.
Only drawback.....the ending. Wanted SO to hear what happened at the ball!! I sincerely hope the Author will do another book, picking up from there
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I went straight from Pride & Prejudice to Excessively Diverted and I have to say that it flowed very nicely together. I bought this after reading recommendations from others on Amazon and I'm happy to say that I do not regret it at all. I really enjoyed this book. The language, I felt, stayed fairly close to Austen and while I didn't care for what happened to some characters, I must admit it flowed exactly how I felt it would have after the events in P&P. By the middle of the book I couldn't put it down and ended up finishing it in one week. My only regret is reading a sequel that I enjoyed so much before reading the other one I bought. Everything will be down hill from here. The only thing that I didn't care for in the book was the quotes from P&P. I felt they came too often. I did like the quotes before the start of each chapter. I thought that was a nice way to allude to things. But the frequent references to them by the characters them selves, especially Darcy and Elizabeth, was repeated too often. The author did have several good lines of her own though. As I had done with P&P, I found myself pulling out a pen and underlining several sentences I liked, which, by my standards, bodes well for the author.
All in all, I would say if you want to take a chance and read a sequel, I would go with this one. Of course nothing is going to be as good as the original (book or author), but this gives it a far go at it. I, like many others, didn't want to finish P&P because we didn't want it to end. This is a nice incentive to do so since it will allow you another year with the Darcy's.
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