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A review by bookshelfintheshire
Mr. Darcy's Little Sister by C. Allyn Pierson
3.0
If you know me, you know I'm a nerd. I'm a book nerd, I love to read. To add to that I'm an avid Janeite. I love me some Jane Austen!! My 'to-read' and 'read' lists on Goodreads each have piles of books set in Regency England, and many are actually based on characters from Jane Austen's beloved novels, the most popular are based on the characters of Pride and Prejudice.
Mr. Darcy's Little Sister is such a book. C. Allyn Pierson pens a tale about Georgiana Darcy, an important character in P&P who in the original barely makes an appearance. This is the only book I've found that is exclusively about Georgiana.
The story begins as Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are planning their wedding. Through Pierson's vision we see how Georgiana felt about the eengagement and her brother's choice in a wife. The dialogue between Lizzie and Georgiana is cordial and becomes sisterly, but gets a little cheesy and over-the-top. I know Regency-era dialogue was more proper and polite, but they just keep going on and on and on to the point where I was doing my best not to skim through some areas.
Pierson also paints a lot of the scenes through a character telling another character of something that had happened. I know that the reader needs to know these details, but I think the author should have just written the actual scene instead of having a character try to explain it. It got SO BORING when one character would relay a story to another over pages of mostly one-sided dialogue. If one of my friends was trying to explain something to me about a past event I was absent from the way these characters did I would want to strangle them.
Aside from a little excitement in the first half and middle of the book, it's kind of a dull read. The storyline is entertaining, which makes up for the dullness. If I didn't have a pre-existing love for many of the characters in this novel, I don't think I would have liked it as much as I did. Yes, in spite of the areas that dragged a little, it was a quick read and was entertaining about 80% of the time. One big thing I ask of all attempting to write about Jane Austen's characters is that they follow with the Austen theme: All characters have a happy ending, which is what we get in Mr. Darcy's Little Sister.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has read and loved Pride and Prejudice.
Mr. Darcy's Little Sister is such a book. C. Allyn Pierson pens a tale about Georgiana Darcy, an important character in P&P who in the original barely makes an appearance. This is the only book I've found that is exclusively about Georgiana.
The story begins as Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are planning their wedding. Through Pierson's vision we see how Georgiana felt about the eengagement and her brother's choice in a wife. The dialogue between Lizzie and Georgiana is cordial and becomes sisterly, but gets a little cheesy and over-the-top. I know Regency-era dialogue was more proper and polite, but they just keep going on and on and on to the point where I was doing my best not to skim through some areas.
Pierson also paints a lot of the scenes through a character telling another character of something that had happened. I know that the reader needs to know these details, but I think the author should have just written the actual scene instead of having a character try to explain it. It got SO BORING when one character would relay a story to another over pages of mostly one-sided dialogue. If one of my friends was trying to explain something to me about a past event I was absent from the way these characters did I would want to strangle them.
Aside from a little excitement in the first half and middle of the book, it's kind of a dull read. The storyline is entertaining, which makes up for the dullness. If I didn't have a pre-existing love for many of the characters in this novel, I don't think I would have liked it as much as I did. Yes, in spite of the areas that dragged a little, it was a quick read and was entertaining about 80% of the time. One big thing I ask of all attempting to write about Jane Austen's characters is that they follow with the Austen theme: All characters have a happy ending, which is what we get in Mr. Darcy's Little Sister.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has read and loved Pride and Prejudice.