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A Reason to Hope: A Pride & Prejudice Novella by Christie Capps
3.0
I'm trying to get in one P&P reimagining a month, as I have quite a few (grabbed during a "stuff your Kindle" event) and found several with audio available on Hoopla. I've found I need to space them out though, or the stories can get mixed up in my mind. I was wondering about the Lydia/Wickham impact ... and then realized they don't even make an appearance in this book, that was February's P&P.
Bitty book/Novella ... pretty traditional, 3rd person (but we do get much more in Darcy's head than in the original), past tense. Twist here is that Darcy thinks he is dying, and needs to provide an heir (as that whole "entailed" issue is going to affect his family/property too).
One might think, that with a note from his father specifically telling him to perhaps look to "a country gentleman's daughter" and then his heading to Hertfordshire (to Bingley's estate) that the initial meeting with Elizabeth might have been different. But no, Darcy still manages to insult Lizzie and gain her disapprobation. Similar scenes at Netherfield, as Darcy starts to see Lizzie in a new light, and immediately proposes, with less "love" and assumption as in the original, as he is honest about the situation, laying things out more logically. And Lizzie isn't calculated (and not AS unhappy with Darcy as he hasn't broken up Jane/Bingley, and she hasn't met Wickham), more realizing that she's very needed.
... the rest is really unsurprising. they fall in love after marriage, Darcy isn't dying and his health is restored and they live happily ever after. There was the whole "food poisoning" which seemed a little out of place and extreme. Killing off Anne.
So ... it was fine. Not really anything I think I'll remember. I don't care for the cover. At all.
Bitty book/Novella ... pretty traditional, 3rd person (but we do get much more in Darcy's head than in the original), past tense. Twist here is that Darcy thinks he is dying, and needs to provide an heir (as that whole "entailed" issue is going to affect his family/property too).
One might think, that with a note from his father specifically telling him to perhaps look to "a country gentleman's daughter" and then his heading to Hertfordshire (to Bingley's estate) that the initial meeting with Elizabeth might have been different. But no, Darcy still manages to insult Lizzie and gain her disapprobation. Similar scenes at Netherfield, as Darcy starts to see Lizzie in a new light, and immediately proposes, with less "love" and assumption as in the original, as he is honest about the situation, laying things out more logically. And Lizzie isn't calculated (and not AS unhappy with Darcy as he hasn't broken up Jane/Bingley, and she hasn't met Wickham), more realizing that she's very needed.
... the rest is really unsurprising.
So ... it was fine. Not really anything I think I'll remember. I don't care for the cover. At all.