by Pamela Aidan
I'm not going to go in depth on Aidan's writing, the purpose, etc. as these were covered in my review of the first book in the series, An Assembly Such As This. Duty and Desire is far more ambitious; it details Darcy's life from Christmas until right before he travels to Rosings. This is lost time...
Hmm. Well.That was...interesting.This covers the part of P&P in which Darcy is not seen at all. So it makes sense that Elizabeth would not be seen but that doesn't entirely account for the rather weird book that this is. The author got to take some a lot of liberties with this one. I'm sure she had ...
I have two ratings for this book. If I just considered the book by itself without having it associated with anything else I liked it. I like the story, the conflict and the resolution. The second rating is one star. I had a hard time with the characters we were supposed to already know. Darcy and Ge...
This part two of the Fitzwilliam Darcy trilogy covers the time in Pride and Prejudice where the readers of Jane Austen don't see him. Not to give anything away, but boy, did he have a wild time of it!The plot is rather slow when he's in London and just spending time with his sister and his cousins, ...
Not as good as the first or third part of the trilogy. Darcy is off by himself in the middle of Pride and Prejudice and either I don't care much what he was doing and/or his character doesn't ring true here.
This covers the time in P & P when Darcy is absent from Elizabeth's sphere. Aidan uses it to good effect, allowing Darcy to be seen in his own right as brother to Georgiana, a caring relative to his Fitzwilliam/ Matlock relations, master of Pemberley and man trying to decide between his desires for ...
I believe this is the volume that completely diverts from the original story line, but which seems wholly plausible given that the original story doesn't even touch upon what Darcy was doing for part of the year; which is why I enjoy it the best out of all the three. Despite the fact that I know how...