My first review definitely has to be about the "best romance book ever written." And that's none other than Pride and Prejudice.
So I read this book at the start of the quarantine because, well, my best friend was REALLY into it at the time. So I said why not?
Okay, so we begin with the whole, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
GREAT BEGINNING!!
But you see, the book goes on to introduce really intriguing characters from the Bennet family. The chill Dad, the Busybody mother who was well played in the movie if I might add and then the Bennet sisters.
Kind Jane, smart Lizzy... And the rest.
Haha!
Well, we sorta land at a party of Mr Bingley whose name I enjoyed more than the character because well... It's "Bingley." Why would you punish your family like that? Maybe it was like too cool in those days you know, like how the name Albert sounds like "grandpa" now but was like the young dude in The Count of Monte Cristo (right? The book freaked me out.)
Back to the plot...
So smexy god Darcy, whose first name was so anticlimactic I didn't blame the world from deleting it from common usage, (I was expecting something cool... I had no ideas but something that didn't look like Fitzwilliam. Well, it was the hot stuff of ancient times so who am I to judge) appears and like dazzles everybody with his hotness. But then he ignores them and they get upset. Again, I'm using my modern mind and the modern mind says that if he didn't want to talk to a pack of strangers who wanted to sink their claws into his coffers, then that's his business, don't you think?
But then he pisses of Elizabeth too and she holds some grudge because he refused to dance (was it? He said something rude too). Well, they keep on clashing because of Bingley x Jane. And her very cruel but opportunistic mom sends Jane away under the rain for the very purpose of her getting sick!!
And then Nice Jane rides hard in the rain to the abode of the vulture Miss Bingley who has her eye on Darcy. But Darcy hasn't even conceived the thought that she was meant to be of any importance to his life which is a situation that made me laugh too much.
So Lizzy does a nice march in the mud to the Bingley House where she stays to care for Jane and then Darcy falls hopelessly in love with her and in my head I'm like "Really Darcy? When she hates your guts?"
But yes...
Collins.
The man was a joke. If you've read the book you'll understand why and then he, after his plan to catch Jane failed, went to Elizabeth, who like a champ, didn't give him the time of day. As I was reading I kept on saying, "Stay away! #Property of Darcy!!!"
But then he married Charlotte who I felt really bad for and went back to licking that his old lady's boots. So... They take a nice trip to Collin's house where she interacts with Darcy and what's his aunt's name?
De Bourgh?
Well, didn't like her... Too self important.
So yeah Darcy proposes like an idiot and Elizabeth spews some justice no matter how wrong about him she was...
( I forgot about Wickham. He's some weirdo that spewed some lies about Darcy denying him his inheritance. All a bunch of nonsense)
Then Darcy finally showed his Fresh Boy education and wrote a nice letter that Elizabeth was *thank goodness* able to reconcile as the truth.
Lizzy starts to like him about here... But then it became HAWT when she went to his house (To be honest I thought that when she saw the money there, love struck her like lightening. But Elizabeth is a better person than that, yes yes. That isn't something she'd do... It's something I would though)
So she interacts with Darcy again and discovers that he's just socially inept not rude... Aww
And then her idiot sister does "Catch me if you can" with her family and runs away with Wickham, who was poor too. I'm like if you're going to run away with someone make sure there's some dough to keep you alive.
God, I'm such a bad person.
Anyhow, Darcy drops some nice Ten Thousand with Wickham and they marry and then everything falls in place.
And Bingley...
He married Jane.
Yay.
Then Elizabeth and Darcy tie the knot too.
(Please note, Elizabeth's mom started to like Darcy when she heard he was rich. See, she's my sister from another timeline.)
Yay.
Now the book is good. But I couldn't understand too much of what they were saying because I read the old English version.
God my brain was hurting me.
You should try it out because every bad boy has, you know. There's just a list of books you should read and this one's some where on the top along with The Notebook 😁.
Thanks for stopping by,
Cadi.
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