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Emily Albright is a 29 year old romantic whose first love was Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This love affair started when she was 12 and no man has ever reached the bar that Mr. Darcy set. Of course if you were to look at her string of pathetic dates, you would agree with me when I say who in their right mind would want them? After a disastrous date with Mr. Hair-Plugs, Emily decides never again. She’s tired of dating the worst of lot and refuses to put herself through another Dutch pizza date.
When Stella, her best friend and coworker hears this, she is shocked. Determined to put Emily back on the horse she insists that they go on a 18-30 vacation to Mexico. With images of wet T-shirt contests, drunken frat boys, and too much tequila in mind Emily grasps for an excuse to not go. A brochure to Jane Austen’s England catches her eye and the idea is born. Better still there’s an opening for the week of New Year’s the time of the trip to Mexico and Emily leaps on the idea.
What follows is a story written with humor on par with a Stephenie Plum novel…delicious and wickedly witty. My one complaint with the tale is Spike and I’ll explain. Spike is the only other young person on this tour and he’s there to write a report on the incredible sexy Mr. Darcy, the one man all women would date and hop into bed with given the chance. Spike is set up to be a modern day Mr. Darcy, but let me tell you he is far from the dashing figure cut by the broodingly reserved Mr. Darcy. Spike has a flabby belly, is only kinda cute, and his style of clothing is far from impeccable. Same goes for his manners.
Meanwhile Emily has the incredible chance of meeting the real Mr. Darcy in a series of out of time experiences. Getting her in own way, she finds herself cross with Mr. Darcy for his 19th century mannerisms and breeding and feels self-conscious and foolish by her own 21st century idiosyncrasies. Instead of explaining to him that she’s an American from the 21st and that from her perspective things have changed from style of dress to turn of phrases and what is considered good manners, she leaves him in the dark and always takes his silences as negative non-comments. The truth of the matter is, he finds her American “19th century” ways a breath of fresh air and falls in love with her. When he says as much Emily contridicts him and thinks to herself that the fantasy of Mr. Darcy is not as good as the reality of Mr. Darcy.
What an incredible nit-wit! She throws away the good catch because she can’t be bothered to speak plainly to Mr. Darcy. I find it hard to believe that any woman greeted with a flesh and blood Mr. Darcy would not make the effort to be on the same page with him. Sure she thought he was a period actor for a time but when she discovered the truth Emily should have persevered to explain why she thought he was not telling the truth. Even if he thought she was crazy he would have come around, after all he loved her for her American ways already. So for the ridiculously stupid move on the heroine’s part I have to rate the story below average, because I just can’t reconcile myself to Spike the modern Mr. Darcy Emily Albright wanted.
Rating: 2.5 Stars
Originally posted 2008-11-24 07:44:58. Republished by Old Post Promoter
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Oh I hated this book, it was terrible. An insult to Jane Austen.
I hate the fact that the modern Mr. Darcy is an obnoxious, fat, slob that the main character falls for. The only thing that him and the real Mr. Darcy have in common is their own arrogance.
The heroine is not a modern-day Lizzy by any stretch of the imagination. She’s pretty much a forlorn, shy idiot. Nothing like Lizzy at all. I mean she couldn’t even stand up to her housemate to tell her to back off.
And the fantasy Mr.Darcy, let’s no go there. He’s nothing like the real one from the Austen novel. Alexandra’s Darcy is a sappy, lovesick git, for lack of a better term.
I would have given it 0 stars if I could.
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