I so wanted to like this book since I love P.D. James and Pride and Prejudice. Unfortunately this is James at her worst. The story drags on and on and doesn't get to the death for much too long. And of course, you are praying that when Lydia declares that Wickham is dead that she is right since h...
I have read Pride and Prejudice a couple of times, have seen a couple of movie adaptations, and also read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. When I heard about this book, I was apprehensive, as I’ve never read anything by P.D. James, but I was also eager to to read more about Elizabeth and Darcy and ...
I'm surprised at how low the ratings are for this book because I actually thought it was quite good. PD James seemed to me to get the voice of Jane Austen down, especially when you compare this to her Adam Daghliesh (sp?) books and note how different they are. I felt she was very successful. The m...
A joyless and dreary exercise in ventriloquism. And poorly done to boot. The characters have been so drained of vivacity and wit, they bear absolutely no resemblance to Austen's. They're like Lizzy and Darcy zombies that P.D. James has reanimated through some unholy necromancy, except they don't hun...
I was so excited for this book. And thing is, I thought that the language and the tone and the world and even the characters felt very true to the originals. However, it was like so much focus was on that authenticity that the murder story itself paled in comparison. I got a third of the way through...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/death-comes-to-pemberly.htmlDeath Comes to Pemberley tells of a death - possibly a murder - at Pemberley, the home of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Many of the characters from Pride and Prejudice feature in this book as well...
The plot was promising and interesting enough. If only the writing were better... At best the writing is mediocre, but some sentences could be used as perfect examples of how not to write in a manual for beginning writers."Passing slowly, almost in awe, between two of the slender trunks, they stood ...
This was my first P.D. James book and it was a good one. I got a fix for both mystery and Jane Austen in this book and was quite surprised with its resolution.
Some years after Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Wickham (nee Bennet) stumbles through the front door of Pemberley in hysterics. There were gunshots in the woods, and she's sure her husband has been murdered. Darcy and some of the other men go out in search, and find Mr. Wickham crouched over Denny's b...
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