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corissam's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
lauriestein's review against another edition
2.0
essentially just recaps the book. except for one funny moment at the end when mr. darcy is horrified that mr. collins proposed to elizabeth.
retiredlibrarylady's review against another edition
3.0
This book was on my bookcase along with a lot of others. Since the stay-at-home order, I have been working on that pile and got to this one. I realized I'd never read Pride and Prejudice, so I read that one first (free on Kindle!) and then this one. Entertaining but not at all essential. Basically the same story with some context added for Darcy's feelings and opinions.
salimah's review against another edition
1.0
didn't finish... just could NOT get into it. I thought it was going to offer some insight into Daryc's psyce. It was just the same story told with him as the central character. Maybe there was something better to come, but I couldn't hang in there.
lizzina's review against another edition
4.0
I liked this book, which is partially a reprise of Pride and Prejudice but adds some thoughts of Mr. Darcy :) It waa nice to read a lovely love story in the mind of the man involved, ad Mr. Darcy has always been my fave from Jane Austen.
mthorley23's review against another edition
3.0
I gave it three stars because, how can I not like reading the story of Pride and Prejudice? I didn't think the author did a great job in showing us Darcy's side. It got better toward the end where there were bigger gaps in Austen's timeline of what Darcy was up to but all in all I would have liked to read more of what Darcy's thoughts and feelings were. It mostly read like a rewording of the same story with minor changes and fill-ins. I think it should have been written sufficient to stand on its own, without Jane Austen's original. Austen is an amazing writer though. It is difficult to compare. Also, in focusing solely on the romantic part of the story, it loses the depth of the original as a reflection of human nature and Austen's society and becomes little more than chick-lit.
se_wigget's review against another edition
3.0
Darcy’s Story is Pride and Prejudice from a different perspective, that of Fitzwilliam Darcy, as Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern are Dead is Hamlet from a different perspective. Within the first couple pages, I quickly became aware that this is fan fiction (though the writing is much more skilled than fan fiction I’ve come across online) and that the author’s style isn’t as funny and witty as Jane Austen’s. However, as the author points out in a note at the back of the book, the witty and satirical tone of Pride and Prejudice is appropriate since it’s from Elizabeth Bennet’s vivacious and witty perspective (although it’s in third person), and Darcy’s Story is appropriate more serious and brooding, since it’s from Darcy’s perspective. That said, Jane Austen would have written it with her customary wit.
Darcy’s Story begins chronologically before Pride and Prejudice, because it covers the time when Wickham elopes with Darcy’s sister Georgiana. Since most of the novel takes place at the same time as Pride and Prejudice, the author has taken much of Jane Austen’s dialog, but this time around we witness Darcy’s thoughts and emotions. The book does continue after the classic novel ends, because it includes the couple’s preparations for married life and it includes the wedding. I think this ending could have been omitted.
If you’d like to learn more about Fitzwilliam Darcy, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and Colonel Fitzwilliam, you’ll enjoy this book. (But a more page-turning and well-written book is Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler.)
cris136's review against another edition
3.0
It was alright. This is Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's point of view. However I felt the author could have developed Darcy's character more, his "point of view" was mostly just stating what we already know from Pride and Prejudice, not how he got to that particular thought or feeling.
melissadegraffbooks's review against another edition
5.0
This was so good! I would recommend this to anyone who loved Pride and Prejudice. It is just a retelling of the same story from Darcy's point of view, but so interesting! I always wondered what Darcy was thinking.