Sara T. reviewed Mixed feelings on 7/6/2009

Helpful Score: 1

I will start off stating that I am in no way an expert on Jane Austen, but I have read Pride and Prejudice a few times and love the characters and story. So I was excited to see someones opinion about what happened after Jane Austens story ends. Overall I was disappointed with this version. My first impression was that the author is TRYING to write in Jane Austens style, and it was not a success. The word betwixt was used so often that it became annoying and distracted from the story, along with the French terms that I felt were not necessary. If I hadn't become familiar with the characters personalities from Pride and Prejudice, they would have been a mystery to me in this book. I feel that they didn't stay true to their personality traits and many times found myself thinking "They would not do that",or "They would not say that." The other disappoint was the lack of dialog. Almost all of the book was the narrator telling us what the characters where thinking or saying instead of a direct quote from the character. This was the most frustrating because unlike Austens work, I felt like I was getting word of mouth from someone instead of feeling like I was directly observing this family. On the good side there were times where I agreed with the situation the author had created and felt like it was something that these characters might have dealt with or chosen. So over all the book left me with very mixed feelings. I am disappointed with many of the conflicts, and agree with even less, but am happy with the way the story ended. If you are totally devoted to Pride and Prejudice and love the story/characters I may not recommend this book to you. But if you are open minded and don't mind they word betwixt you may like this book.

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