This was so well-done! Darcy is his usual rude, unsociable self in Hertfordshire, then makes stupid assumptions about the (truly accidental) compromise, and afterwards acts in a horrible manner, making the marriage settlement absolutely heinous. Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet are very clever and secretly get around many of Darcy's restrictions.
Elizabeth is SO wickedly smart, I loved this Elizabeth so much! She uses Darcy's cruel directives against him, and uses strategy from The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Her background is not what everyone thinks and later Darcy is gobsmacked when he finds out who she really is.
Eventually Darcy realizes that A) Perhaps Wickham had nothing to do with the compromise, which is later confirmed; B) Elizabeth is not who he thought she was; C) He was a Total Jerk, and he has lots of work to do to redeem himself. I think Elizabeth let him into her bed much, much too soon - there should have been way more groveling first.
The Matlocks and Georgiana are wonderful. When Georgiana hears Darcy and the Bingleys talking and believes that Darcy compromised a gentleman's daughter and refuses to marry her, she let Darcy know absolutely what she thinks of him! Go Georgiana!
Colonel Fitzwilliam is delightful. He is very clever in following leads and adding 2 plus 2 and getting 4, unlike Darcy, who gets random numbers like 5, Pi, or 256, each time he does the arithmetic! The Colonel's skill in finding things out from simple conversations was masterful, even as he is manipulated by Elizabeth, which he gleefully realizes much later.
Jane has a backbone! I loved her set-down of Mr. Bingley. And the schadenfreude is delicious in the disgrace of the disgusting Miss Bingley, although both of them get better than they deserve in the long run, IMO.
Lady Catherine is completely bat-sh*t insane. You will be shocked to find out what she planned, in her attempt to eliminate Mrs. Darcy so Mr. Darcy could marry Anne (as if). Yikes!
Even though it's on Kindle Unlimited, I bought it so I can have a permanent copy.
Edit Jan 2024, third or fourth reading: Still up there in my list of the best of the best of P&P JAFF! Oh, it's not perfect, and someone needs to teach the author how to properly use commas, but even so, I love this book!
I highly recommend this book!
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