Crystal J. (dorolerium) reviewed on 2/4/2012 + 212 more book reviews

It may come as a shock that this book is my actual introduction into the world of Jane Austen, unless you count a million viewings of the movie Clueless, which is based off a different Austen novel. I havent ever read a stitch of Austens work, so I entered this book with no knowledge or prejudices about any of the characters. This book gives enough background so that someone like me is not entirely confused as to who is who, and hints just enough at the past and present of each of these characters that you can get a bit of an idea about them before the bulk of the novel starts.

Given that most other readers probably have read Pride & Prejudice, Ill spare a description or comment on our cast of characters, since I dont have P&P to compare them to anyway. What we have in this story is really a classic whodunit, with a bloody supposed murderer standing over a dead body. To make matters worse, we get a confession of sorts, which throws everything into disarray.

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