berlinbibliophile 's review for:

Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz

1.0

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This book works neither as a retelling of Pride and Prejudice nor as a story in its own right. The characters are all pretty shallow, awful people, and to be honest the main couple seems terrible for each other. The author also doesn't seem to understand that Darcy and Elizabeth changing and growing into better people is an essential part of the plot and appeal of the original story, and her characters find out that growth, or reconsidering their prejudices, is unneccessary, because it was all that mean psycho Charlotte's fault for keeping them apart. I hated pretty much all the characters, and none more so than Darcy, our protagonist. Her entire character seems to exist solely to spout off about how wealthy she is and how little she cares about other people. I mean, she plans to name her child after Ayn Rand characters! Luke, out Elizabeth stand-in, doesn't go much beyond "sexy arms and snobbery" either.
If you're interested in the story, do yourself a favour and read Pride and Prejudice instead of this butchering of it.