Pemberley by the Sea: A modern love story, Pride and Prejudice style
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Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
This is a modern day Pride and Prejudice with Cassie Boulton, the Elizabeth Bennet character as a marine biologist, and Calder Westing, the Darcy character is a Senator's son. I would say that this really a exact retelling, it more takes the basic frame of Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth and Darcy meet, Elizabeth dislikes Darcy from this first meeting while he starts to be intrigued by her in their subsequent meetings. The Jane and Mr. Bingley story in the meantime is even more loosely based on the original: they meet and date but encounter problems when summer is over. There isn't really a Wickham, lots of sisters, or a silly Mr. Collins.
The focus is instead on the two characters and their relationship. The book is modern in that there are a few intense sex scenes, but I didn't find them distasteful. From the beginning there is substantial chemistry between Cassie and Calder, which is obvious to the reader, but maybe not so obvious to the characters themselves. The tension is palpable, and when their relationship becomes physical (in a very memorable way) it's too early for them to turn it into a relationship. When they move their separate ways, but keep running into each other anyway, the tension continues. Calder assumes how he feels is obvious, but to Cassie, his face is unreadable, and she assumes that she doesn't belong in his world, especially with her low beginnings and a brother in jail. The revelation of how Calder really feels in the form of his "letter" to Cassie was one of my favorite parts of this book.
The only problem I had with this book, was that it seemed to continue far past where you'd think the Happily Ever After was. There was a lot of drama from both Cassie and Calder's pasts that kept coming between them, but then they'd find away around it, and something else would come up. I didn't feel like this part of this book was uninteresting, and it is original stuff (very different from the Pride and Prejudice story), but it seemed to go on much longer than it needed to.
My full review: http://janicu.livejournal.com/97247.html
The focus is instead on the two characters and their relationship. The book is modern in that there are a few intense sex scenes, but I didn't find them distasteful. From the beginning there is substantial chemistry between Cassie and Calder, which is obvious to the reader, but maybe not so obvious to the characters themselves. The tension is palpable, and when their relationship becomes physical (in a very memorable way) it's too early for them to turn it into a relationship. When they move their separate ways, but keep running into each other anyway, the tension continues. Calder assumes how he feels is obvious, but to Cassie, his face is unreadable, and she assumes that she doesn't belong in his world, especially with her low beginnings and a brother in jail. The revelation of how Calder really feels in the form of his "letter" to Cassie was one of my favorite parts of this book.
The only problem I had with this book, was that it seemed to continue far past where you'd think the Happily Ever After was. There was a lot of drama from both Cassie and Calder's pasts that kept coming between them, but then they'd find away around it, and something else would come up. I didn't feel like this part of this book was uninteresting, and it is original stuff (very different from the Pride and Prejudice story), but it seemed to go on much longer than it needed to.
My full review: http://janicu.livejournal.com/97247.html
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