Darcy is definitely a bit sappier than in the original, but he’s still proud and he doesn’t act like a lovesick schoolboy throughout the story. Of course, I don’t even need to talk about the characters because they were completely true to the original. It really felt as though I was reading Austen at times. The language here was fantastic and felt completely true to the original. Ormiston weaves an enchanting story that made me fall in love with the characters of Pride and Prejudice all over again. To be honest, it was pretty easy for me to tell whether I would like the book – the minute I bought Elizabeth’s acceptance of Darcy (given that it seemed so unlike her), I knew that Darcy and Elizabeth were in the hands of a skilled writer. Instead, the story looks at what might have happened if Elizabeth had accepted Darcy back then. This is a Pride and Prejudice retelling, diverging from the book at Darcy’s original proposal. I heard about this from Jane over at the Greenish Bookshelves and I love Pride and Prejudice so I headed down to the library for this the first chance I had.
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