I had high expectations of this book, since I have read two others by Ms. Jeffers The Phantom of Pemberley and Captain Wentworth's Persuasion and I remember enjoying them. As soon as I started reading this novel I discovered there was a book before this that I hadn't read. There were a few characters that I kept getting mixed up with other characters. Every P&P sequel usually has the main people, so they are easy to distinguish, but since this takes place at least 4 years after P&P ends there are others to introduce. Since I'm pretty familiar it's usually pretty easy to get right into things, but there was a new family friend that I kept getting mixed up with Elizabeth's sister Mary, since this friend was also named Mary. I think about 100 pages in it finally clicked.
Anyways, as mentioned above this takes place a few years after P&P. Elizabeth and Darcy have one son and Jane and Bingley have a few children. Georgiana Darcy has recently married their Cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam who has gone to France to fight Napolen. To prepare for his return Georgiana has left Pemberley to ready their Scotish estate. After not hearing from her for a few weeks Darcy begins to worry. From here the novel gets pretty crazy and far fetched. At one point Wickham tries to kill Darcy, and later the novel even has cannibalism. It just went too far and didn't meet my expectations. It's not a P&P sequel I'll be rereading anytime soon.
I'll give this a B- 80%
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