pride and prejudice

An Assembly Such As This by Pamela Aidan- Guest Review

by Sasha Muradali 09.12.2011

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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Review: Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg

by Keira 09.09.2011

Genre: YA Romance Summary: If Pride and Prejudice took place in high school you can bet your Mr. Collinses that it’d be about prom and of course set in a prestigious all girl boarding school (Longbourn Academy) where the Caroline Bingleys were far more concerned about their Prada and arm candy than anything else. In [...]

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Review: Parker’s Price by Ann Bruce

by Keira 07.24.2011

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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Review: An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan

by Keira 07.23.2011

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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Movie Review: Lost in Austen starring Jemima Rooper and Elliot Cowan

by Keira 07.19.2011

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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When Darcy Listens to His Head and Not His Heart

by Keira 07.19.2011

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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Review: A Wife for Mr. Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen

by Keira 07.10.2011

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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Review: Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts by Mitzi Szereto

by Sandra Scholes 06.30.2011

by Sandra Scholes, guest reviewer Just as when Jane Austen had written this novel over a hundred years ago, Mrs. Bennet finds out that Netherfield Park is to be let to a gentleman of means and position in society, and, she finds out, he is also a very handsome man indeed. It isn’t long before [...]