Sourcebooks Landmark
ISBN: 978-1402262494
Published Feb 2012
Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Compulsively Mr. Darcy is a
modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Darcy is an obsessive
compulsive philanthropist who follows his friend Mr. Bingley and his
family to Vietnam where Bingley's older sister Louisa and her husband
want to adopt a child. Here they meet Dr. Elizabeth Bennet at an
emergency room and her sister Jane, who works at the orphanage.
Misunderstandings ensue when Elizabeth thinks that Darcy and Bingley
are a couple and that they are the ones who really want to adopt a
child.
After some of the good reviews I read
about this book, I was eager to read it. It started out okay, and the
premise of the story promised a funny read but before long I realized
I didn't real care for it. After 100 pages I had enough of the crude
language and romance based on nothing but physical attraction. The
characters were okay but not enough for me to want to continue
reading. I was actually getting bored. The setting of Vietnam was
interesting but it wasn't exotic and the story could easily have
taken place elsewhere and not much would have changed.
I realize that Austen spin-offs are a
hit and miss with me. I'm a sucker when it comes to Pride and
Prejudice but maybe I should just hang up my hat and stick to the
real thing. That way, disappointment won't be a possibility.
This book is rated P and S = Profanity and explicit sexual content.
Reviewed by Laura
Disclosure: Thanks Kay Mitchell from Sourcebooks for sending me this book for review. I was not compensated in any other way, nor told how to rate or review this product.
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