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A review by scribesprite
Darcy's Story by Janet Aylmer
4.0
Good book, good book. I’d always wondered about Darcy when I was reading Pride and Prejudice because you just think of Darcy the way Elizabeth does so I thought it would be interesting to see what Darcy might’ve thought while Elizabeth was hating him. And I was right. Before I go farther I should mention that I really liked Pride and Prejudice but I’m not a diehard fan.
Darcy’s Story stays true to the original. About 90% of dialogue Darcy has with Elizabeth is straight from the book. But you get his thoughts, his feelings, and why he does what he does. I enjoyed the fact that you even got to see a little more of how Elizabeth reacted (i.e. Elizabeth blushes and smiles a few times). You don’t really get to see what or how Darcy stays so wealthy except that he took his father’s place. For some reason I thought that it would be a bigger deal, but I guess Aylmer wanted to focus on the relationships like Austen did. You see his relationship with his sister, his cousin, and the Bingleys which I appreciated. In comparison with Pride and Prejudice you get more feelings and reactions than Austen did and I could tell when the writing wasn’t Austen’s but that didn’t really bother me. It didn’t go from Austen’s 1800 style of writing to modern slang, but I could see that it was a bit more...relaxed.
I think I like Darcy more after reading this book. It’s not that he didn’t feel all high and mighty and above everyone because he did there is no going around that, but it seemed a bit more sympathetic towards Darcy’s actions. I saw how much he was willing to do for her, thought of her, and how much her words affected him. That being said, he thinks a looooooot about Elizabeth. Not in the beginning, but once he realizes his feeling for her, his focus on nearly everything is pretty much Elizabeth. It’s not that I didn’t want him to think about Elizabeth; I did but not so much. He kept recapping this one phrase that she said about him not being very gentlemanly about four times. But I guess that shows that he really cares about her opinion which is always a good thing.
Now that I’ve read this book I feel like Elizabeth and Darcy are even more right for each other. Darcy isn’t perfect but he really is a good guy and Elizabeth just makes him that much better.
Darcy’s Story stays true to the original. About 90% of dialogue Darcy has with Elizabeth is straight from the book. But you get his thoughts, his feelings, and why he does what he does. I enjoyed the fact that you even got to see a little more of how Elizabeth reacted (i.e. Elizabeth blushes and smiles a few times). You don’t really get to see what or how Darcy stays so wealthy except that he took his father’s place. For some reason I thought that it would be a bigger deal, but I guess Aylmer wanted to focus on the relationships like Austen did. You see his relationship with his sister, his cousin, and the Bingleys which I appreciated. In comparison with Pride and Prejudice you get more feelings and reactions than Austen did and I could tell when the writing wasn’t Austen’s but that didn’t really bother me. It didn’t go from Austen’s 1800 style of writing to modern slang, but I could see that it was a bit more...relaxed.
I think I like Darcy more after reading this book. It’s not that he didn’t feel all high and mighty and above everyone because he did there is no going around that, but it seemed a bit more sympathetic towards Darcy’s actions. I saw how much he was willing to do for her, thought of her, and how much her words affected him. That being said, he thinks a looooooot about Elizabeth. Not in the beginning, but once he realizes his feeling for her, his focus on nearly everything is pretty much Elizabeth. It’s not that I didn’t want him to think about Elizabeth; I did but not so much. He kept recapping this one phrase that she said about him not being very gentlemanly about four times. But I guess that shows that he really cares about her opinion which is always a good thing.
Now that I’ve read this book I feel like Elizabeth and Darcy are even more right for each other. Darcy isn’t perfect but he really is a good guy and Elizabeth just makes him that much better.