I wanted to love this book. I am a huge Jane Austen fan and am always happy to read fan lit. So I was very excited about the prospect of this book, especially with all of the great reviews that I read. But I hated it. I think the thing that bugged me the most was the author’s treatment of Elizabeth (Zuri) and Darcy (Darius). Nothing about these characters reflected their original counterparts. Elizabeth Bennet is prideful, but she is also polite and kind. From […]
As good as I remember
I re-read my favorite for #cbr10bingo Throwback Thursday, partly because it is still my favorite book, and party because I had just finished reading Heartstone, a fantasy version of P + P. I felt I needed to go back to the source.
Robert Langdon in Spain
I am a sucker for a good NY Times Bestseller by Dan Brown, particularly if the book involves Professor Robert Langdon. In “Origin,” the professor of symbology again finds himself in the center of a mess not of his own doing with twists and turns on every page. What made this book an especially fun read for me is that much of it takes place in Barcelona, the city I had just visited before I picked up the book. It was really fun to re-visit […]
Fantastical Pride and Prejudice
I have had this book on my TBR list for quite a while now. I don’t remember what drew me to buying it; I imagine that it was because it was fan fiction of one of my favorite Jane Austen novels, Pride and Prejudice. I don’t think I read the review though, or even the summary, because as much as I love JA, and am always up for giving some fan fiction a chance, a fantasy re-telling of the story would have been one step […]