Amanda Grange picks up where Pride and Prejudice ends. Jane and Elizabeth are getting ready for their double wedding, both eager and anxious about the life spreading out before them. On the way to the wedding, Elizabeth experiences a brief foreboding chill but shrugs it off as wedding nerves. The ceremony goes smoothly, Darcy’s vows [...]
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What I love best is seeing multiple perspectives on books that I’m reading, have read, or intend to read. When Sasha sent me this guest review, I was pleasantly surprised. Without knowing it, we were reading the same book trilogy within days of each other! Check out my review of An Assembly Such as This [...]
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A handsome stranger rescues Parker Quinn from her troublesome ex-boyfriend Tyler Moore during a Manhattan based date auction for charity. He’s gorgeous, witty, and seemingly perfect… that is until he gives her his name and reveals himself to be the dastardly villain who knocked her sister up and refused to do right by her. That [...]
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This novel is Pride and Prejudice retold from Darcy’s POV. He’s very wordy–can you imagine? His version is in three parts! Part one of the Mr. Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, An Assembly Such as This, and the only one I’ve read so far, details his time in Hertfordshire. It starts with the Meryton Assembly and ends [...]
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This three hour BBC miniseries is just precious. It’s lighthearted, humorous, and perfect. Pride and Prejudice is revisited and reintroduced. Lost in Austen pays homage to Jane Austen’s original masterpiece while reinventing it. My friend, who is not a Pride and Prejudice fan—blasphemous I know!—loved this film. My other friend, who is a huge fan [...]
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by Mary Lydon Simonsen, guest blogger and author of A Wife for Mr. Darcy Hi Keira and LRP readers! It’s nice to be back at Love Romance and Passion. You have asked me to write about my latest novel, A Wife for Mr. Darcy, and the fact that Darcy initially listens to his head and [...]
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Summary: What if Mr. Darcy apologized to Elizabeth after his derogatory comment at the assembly? Then in the course of apologizing accidentally repeat the offense? Elizabeth forgives him his insults and the two converse in a manner that leaves Darcy feeling quite curiously. As they come across each other’s paths again and again Darcy regrets [...]
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