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Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James
I wish I could say I loved this book. I am a huge fan of Pride and Prejudice so this book really interested me. Then, I started reading it.
The first few chapters are all rehashes of what happened in Pride and Prejudice. A complete yawner since it stripped it all down to "this happened and then this person did this" which took the fun out of the book at the beginning. If you read this and haven't read P&P then too bad. Why the rehash of that book when obviously the fans will be reading this book? It made little sense since it stripped the story of P&P of any interest in the rehash.
The second thing I hated was it stripped all the wit out of the characters. They were boring and cardboard in personality. They did a lot of talking about things and wondering about things but little real interacting or being who they were. If you are going to draw on literary characters that already exist do not take their personalities and strip them down to cutouts. It makes them boring.
The murder mystery in itself was bland. I really didn't care who killed the character in the book and kept wishing they would just get on with the story and get that over with since the characters were so dull.
I definitely had a struggle getting through this book and felt like I got little joy from reading it.
The first few chapters are all rehashes of what happened in Pride and Prejudice. A complete yawner since it stripped it all down to "this happened and then this person did this" which took the fun out of the book at the beginning. If you read this and haven't read P&P then too bad. Why the rehash of that book when obviously the fans will be reading this book? It made little sense since it stripped the story of P&P of any interest in the rehash.
The second thing I hated was it stripped all the wit out of the characters. They were boring and cardboard in personality. They did a lot of talking about things and wondering about things but little real interacting or being who they were. If you are going to draw on literary characters that already exist do not take their personalities and strip them down to cutouts. It makes them boring.
The murder mystery in itself was bland. I really didn't care who killed the character in the book and kept wishing they would just get on with the story and get that over with since the characters were so dull.
I definitely had a struggle getting through this book and felt like I got little joy from reading it.