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posted by [identity profile] sharp2799.livejournal.com at 04:20am on 30/01/2010
Where do you find these books?? I mean...that was... *brain freeze*

*shakes head to clear it*

Okay, I love Pride & Prejudice and am actually against other authors writing sequels to classics, but a friend I trust just loaned me a sequel to it that focuses on the daughter Mary. And that's far enough removed from the main characters to make me give it a try. Haven't read it yet but in case you're interested, it's A Match for Mary Bennet, by Eucharista Ward, O.S.F.
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posted by [identity profile] annerbhp.livejournal.com at 06:59am on 30/01/2010
Bestseller's rack at Border's. That's where I got it. Review blurb on the front cover: "Emotional and heartfelt, her stories make you believe in the power of love." Or, how about this summary in one of the back blurbs? "SoandSo Main Character hasn't left her house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her family dead, she's cordoned herself off from the world, afraid to let anyone into her home--or into her heart. But now trouble has appeared on her doorstep, and suddenly she has no choice but to let a handsome rancher enter her well-guarded existence." SERIOUSLY?

But, on to happier topics. Austen. I have to admit to being a P&P sequel junkie. But I also can't get through more than five pages of most of them. (There was a great trilogy that told P&P from Darcy's pov that didn't turn him into a weepy, overly emotive fop. Most of them do.) Let me know if you read the Mary one and it turns out worth it! (I have been burned far too many times to read without a firm rec from a friend. Lol.)
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posted by [identity profile] sharp2799.livejournal.com at 02:01am on 15/11/2010
Well, it took me almost forever to get to reading the book LOL but I finally did! The title is A Match for Mary Bennet by Eucharista Ward, O.S.F. (no clue what that stands for).

I enjoyed it. I liked it. And it was great how she kept Mary in character, she didn't turn her into a Mary Sue. But. Yes, there's a "but" and I can't put my finger on why, except it's not Jane Austen. But if you're ever in the mood for that era then it will do well.

I reread some of your comments above and didn't realize you were a Carla Kelly fan! I love Marian's Christmas Wish and Miss Billings Treads the Boards, probably her two least angsty Regency novels.
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