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Get a backbone

Revisado: 09-30-24

Spoiler alert. The Heroine and Hero in the story made annoyingly bad decisions. Really? A companion is going to fire people in the house, lock the Heroine in her bedroom, proclaim an engagement, and the Heroine is just going to take it? And the Hero….You are really not going to come to the rescue because the Heroine met you as someone else? The storyline was weak, and the characters did not have a backbone or sense. In retrospect, I oils not have purchased the book.

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Unrealistic. Couldn’t finish.

Revisado: 02-07-24

This book had great reviews, but failed to live up to the reviews. Elizabeth’s character was weak, childish reminding me of Lydia. The story first told Elizabeth side of the story, and then retold it through Darcy’s eyes, causing the plot to be choppy. The female performer’s voice made Elizabeth sound like older woman. The only redeeming quality of the book was the male performer.

If I could return the book, I would.

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Absolutely delightful!

Revisado: 09-09-23

I love Jane Austen’s books and especially Pride and Prejudice. I have read a lot of P&P fan fiction. Few people can successfully tell a story that is true to Jane Austen’s character’s and style. This story is wonderful. The banter between Darcy and Elizabethis clever, The story is romantic in a manner that is real and not contrived. Best of all was getting to know Anne De Bourgh. Her centrality within the story created real life, believable angst that made for a true to Jane, lovely story. I have read hundreds of P&P fanfiction. This is one of my top 3 favorites, if not my favorite!

Mr.Frost’s Darcy voice is as smooth and rich as velvet! His mastery of the feminine characters was spot on. I knew exactly which character was talking with the inflection of his voice. Brilliant! Thank you, Ms. Lewis for a most entertaining story.

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Creative story. Wonderful narration.

Revisado: 11-27-22

This story was a creative retelling of the “Rapunzel”. The narrator did a wonderful job.

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Too long and boring.

Revisado: 10-25-22

I have read a lot of JAFF. I don’t often write reviews. The premise of the story leading to the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy was not believable. The story was repetitive and boring. Lizzy was too good, and showed no sign of the impertinent, clever person that Darcy fell in love with in the original story. Darcy was too remorseful, saying over and over how awful he was and how good Lizzy was. I fell asleep during the last 2 hours of the book, woke for the last chapter, and will not be going back to listen to what was missed. I find that I just don’t care enough about the characters to waste another 2 + hours of my time.

The narrator had a cadence to the way that he read the story that I found annoying to listen to.

If I had to do it over again, I would not waste a credit on this story.

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Revisado: 07-30-22

This is a short story, not a book. The characters are not developed and the plot is not written in a manner that is believable. It was not worth the credit.

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Unbelievable.

Revisado: 01-01-22

The narrator did an excellent job with the different voices. Kudos.

The writer is good at writing and describing events, places and characters. However, I found the plot had too many unbelievable events and a lack of adherence to the moral dictates of the 1800’s. Spoilers to follow…

Within about a 4 month period… Mr. Bennett has an illness leading to Elizabeth accepting Darcy for mercenary reasons. Darcy finds out, becomes angry, states he will marry her due to his honor, but leaves until the wedding. On their wedding day, Whitcomb takes off with Lydia, and Darcy has to find them and make them wed.

When Darcy returns he is “cold” towards Elizabeth. He then becomes ill with a neurologic disorder, GBS, with accompanying delirium and pain leading to a physical and mental dependency on laudanum which results in vulgar and verbally abusive language towards Elizabeth. This delirium was diagnosed by the Darcy’s physician, who told Elizabeth that Darcy was not in his “right mind” due to the disease and the necessary use of laudanum during his episode.

At the same time two other events occur at Pemberly, an influenza outbreak in the community causing the sickness and death of the Pemberly tenants, and torrential rainstorms that ruin the tenant crops that would have lead to the financial ruination and starvation of the tenants, that simultaneously have influenza, except for the intervention of the heroine.

Elizabeth, aspiring to sainthood, tirelessly cared for both a verbally abusive Darcy and the entire community while figuring out how to get food for the tenants and prevent them from becoming destitute. She then comes down with influenza and gives Darcy influenza on top of his neurologic disease, GBS.

Elizabeth then decides to get an annulment due Darcy’s coldness and verbal abuse at the recommendation of Pemberly’s rector. She leaves Darcy before he has fully recovered, also leaving the people of Pemberly that she has come to care for through the influenza endemic. The final impetus that causes her to leave… The death of her father.

Elizabeth and the semi-recovered Darcy risk the censure of the”Ton” and go to court for an annulment. Elizabeth lives with Jane in Hertfordshire and Darcy returns to Pemberly.

There is a gap of about 6 months following the annulment, where the story picks up. Within the next 2 months Darcy figured out a way to see Elizabeth, apologize to her and the community that he offended. Pemberly burns, Mrs. Reynolds’s dies and Elizabeth, who is no longer married to Darcy, travels back to Pemberly with him to help him manage the tenants and rebuild Pemberly, as a friend.

Whitcomb, who is married to Lydia, shows up and declares Darcy is insane and should be locked up in Bedlam. Whitcomb will manage Pemberly in Darcy’s absence until Georgianna has an heir. All works itself out fairly quickly with not much growth of the characters. Darcy goes to court where everyone but the maid state that they didn’t sign the document stating Darcy was insane and the “will” stating Whitcomb can act as manger of Pemberly…it is actually a forgery. The H&H declare their love and decide to get remarried. They anticipate their wedding vows 17 days before their wedding because…well, they just don’t care anymore.

The characters are unrecognizable. Elizabeth’s is portrayed as the faultless, angelic, rescuer. Darcy is a jealous, vindictive, verbally abusive man (in his delirium which means that is what he is subconsciously thinking) who, when he comes to realize his faults, is a groveling spineless man who has to constantly be rescued by Empress Elizabeth.

There are too many unbelievable events to make this story enjoyable. Could Darcy who is paralyzed from GBS, barely able to take liquids, because his tongue doesn’t work well, who is malnourished with muscle wasting from being paralyzed for months really survive getting influenza at the same time? This does not seem like a realistic outcome with the medical care available at the time.

How likely is it that Darcy’s illness, an influenza endemic and torrential rainstorms would happen all at the same time? How likely would it be that a new bride would be able to care for her husband, the community, and financially manage Pemberly all at the same time, without assistance?

While Elizabeth might have gone home to be with her father as he is dying, would she really not try to go back and work out her marriage? Both characters would not risk their reputations to end an engagement, however, they would go to court to get their marriage annulled. Is this plausible? Is Darcy the only person to have any societal repercussions from the annulment, and then only from the Hertfordshire residents? Would Elizabeth really have been welcomed back into her community?

Is it realistic that Whitcomb, who is not a family member and has debts in Lambton, would be able to provide enough evidence to question Darcy’s sanity 6 months after Darcy has recuperated from his illness? In light of the fact that he would be the direct beneficiary of Pemberly, could Whitcomb really convince the magistrate to listen to him over a landed gentry? There were too many implausible events that happened within the story.

In addition both Darcy and Elizabeth are honorable people who would have been “bound to” and “chosen to” adhered to the moral dictates of the 1800s. It is more likely that they would have lived apart then that they would have gotten an annulment. Bottom line…The story was just not believable.

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