Just finished it. I went ahead and gave it five stars even though it was somewhere between "really liked it" and "amazing." There *are* amazing things about it. Not only is it quotable (as I mentioned on first starting it), but some of it is *Austen* quotable. "A family of five unmarried daughters i...
Although I realize that this book is a tribute to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, I believe, that as a beautifully crafted novel, it can stand completely on its own. I think fans of P. D. James will not be disappointed if they read it, noting its references to Austen’s characters, but then, simpl...
Ugh. So tragic. A wonderful mystery author working with a wonderfully pasticheable story, and oh my god was this book boring. One part axe-grinding fix-it, one part tedious procedural, one part easily-predicted twist, and a whole lot of meh. The murder and court case were more about describing how t...
This was a fun mash-up of Victorian lit and cozy mystery. The story features Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy - yes, the famous couple from Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice. The book starts a few years after the end of Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy are happily married with 2 yo...
This didn't wow me--it's much better written than most of the Austen sequels/ripoffs/homages/reimaginings that have hit the market in the last few years, but it's by a professional writer, so that's not surprising. Most of the character have evolved in ways that fit with their original depictions, ...
I don't know about the choices made for this novel. Most of of the plot doesn't actually occur on the page, but is simply reiterated by at least three characters just in case the reader missed it. Maybe it needed more pages? The attempted Austen tone really doesn't work, and the dialogue is unnatura...
This was a very good book. Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book so I try not to read any sequels so as not to change the perfect picture I have of this book. Ms. James took me by surprise and wrote a book that follows the style of Jane Austen very well. The life of the Darcys, Bingleys and Wic...
From start to finish, author PD James remains true to the voice of Jane Austen in her latest novel, Death Comes to Pemberley. It was easy for me as a reader to slip into the rhythm of the more formal language of the early nineteenth century. The settings, customs, dress and mores of the English upp...
P.D. James does a pastiche of Jane Austen, but in her own (James') genre. First of all, I thought it was a very successful pastiche; there were a few words that jumped out at me (lifestyle?!) and clanged, but by and large James had the Austen style and the Austen habit of thought down pat. The first...
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