I've always liked the idea of a sequel for Lizzie and Darcy; the original Pride and Prejudice story almost demands further exploration than the simple happy ending that Jane Austen leaves us with. I was also pleased to find that this was not another bodice-ripping romance sequal of Lizzie and Darcy like others I have read and been disappointed with. I thought that Bebris did a very good job in keeping the characters of Lizzie and Darcy intact; everything they do and say in the novel is fairly on More...

I started reading this at some point and abandoned it, because when I started to read it this time, the first 1/3 of the book was very familiar. In fact, I may have read the whole thing before. I guess that doesn't make this sound like a very exciting book.
Lizzie and Darcy have married, but have to delay going home to Pemberley because Caroline Bingley announces she is getting married. She marries, but then starts sleep walking, and all sorts of accidents befall the Bingley family. It is up to More...

Bon, je n'aime pas critiquer, c'est un fait, mais avouons-le clairement et une fois pour toute, avec ce livre je suis allée de déception en déception. A sa décharge, je suis obligée d'admettre qu'une grande partie de la déception est entièrement ma faute. Habituellement, je lis bien la description d'un livre et un grand nombre de critiques avant de le commander. C'est d'ailleurs pour ça que mes avis sont presque toujours positifs, je choisis bien mes livres. Ici, j'ai été entièrement séduite pa More...

I didn't give this five stars because to put it on par with the original Austen would be sacrilege. Nonetheless, I might have considered five stars had this book changed my life or made me think long after finishing it, but it did neither.

I didn't give it four stars because the characters were a diluted extension of who we know them to be. Honestly, though, if this author had to choose between offering this kinda anemic version of them and steroiding them up according to her own vision, I'd pre More...

Since first reading Pride and Prejudice many years ago, I've always had a vague hankering to read a good continuation. But the operative word here is good--I've skimmed many a sequel in a Barnes & Noble, only to be horrified by awful writing and ridiculous characterization.

Anyway, I enjoyed the first chapter of this one when I read it online, so I decided to commit to the whole book. Unfortunately, the first chapter was by far the best.

Overall, the writing was tolerable (but not handsome eno More...

I’ve always wanted to venture into the realm of the “spin off” books when it came to Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” I love the book, adore the movies, and although I don’t know if Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are my absolute favorite literary characters, they are wonderful. Unfortunately, I decided to begin this foray into spin offs with “Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife.” It was wretched. All it seemed to be was an excuse to write graphic sex scenes between the poorly portrayed Darcy newl More...

Although I admit Bebris is no Jane Austen, I must confess I relished this book, often smiling while reading, and went on to read and enjoy the rest in the series published to date. The book is first of a series where Mr and Mrs Darcy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are sleuths, often with an element of the supernatural and romance.

I have a couple of friends who are Jane Austen fans I pointed this series to who didn't care for them as much as I did. One said she didn't find them anything sp More...

Have I mentioned how much I love Pride and Prejudice? I do, without apology. My daughter and I sit down to watch the BBC version at least every other month. I've seen all the movies (Matthew McFadden is my favorite Darcy). Naturally, I would gravitate towards anything even remotely related to the story (except those stupid zombie ones - a girl has to have some standards).

I liked this book. Yes, it was silly and didn't quite get the feel of the time period, but Bebris put on a good show. The stor More...

Recent years have seen an explosion in Jane Austen fan fiction. I used to have aspirations to read them all, but that was before everyone and her sister (and a few brothers, it must be said) started writing Austen sequels and re-tellings from alternative perspectives. I have read quite a few, though, and Bebris's book is definitely on my very short list of Austen-related fiction that succeeds. This particular book is a sequel to Pride and Prejudice, and it is also the first in a series that has More...

Thumbs down for me. I give it 2 stars for just for effort. Interesting Idea. I think I actually would have liked it if the story didn't involve the P&P characters. I went into it not knowing there were going to be supernatural powers intermingled.... ugh. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood. It started off fine. It was clean- I have heard some Mr. & Mrs. Darcy books are vulgar, but it was appropriate. I think the only Pride and Prejudice spin off books I really enjoy are the Fitzwilliam Darc More...

The books starts at Lizzy and Jane's joint wedding. If you have read Pride and Prejudice you are familiar with the characters and the story. If you haven't, don't worry this book will still be enjoyable for you.

If you are looking for a sequel to Pride and Prejudice this is not it. It is not at all Jane Austen's style of writing or word usage. This book is a mystery. It is fun fluff!

The book centers around the strange behavior of Miss Caroline Bingley. A character our heroine, Elizabeth cares v More...

This is the book that finally got me to read Pride and Prejudice all the way through. I had only read a few chapters of Austen's work, and had seen the 2006 version of the film before reading this book. As an avid mystery lover, I couldn't resist watching two famous literary heroes solve a mystery - and after reading this book I was finally interested in actually reading the story of how Darcy and Elizabeth fall in love.

Bedris' Darcy and Elizabeth are just as intelligent and witty as they are i More...

Great fun; Austen with a dash of mystery and intrigue!

This is definitely one of the better Pride and Prejudice sequels I have read; Bebris has a smooth and engaging writing style that easily absorbs the reader, and the witty humor in her dialogue and prose almost rivals that of Austen herself. Her knowledge of the period, particularly its social etiquette, is subtly woven into the story, as is her familiarity with Elizabeth, Darcy, and other beloved characters. Their relationships with one anoth More...

This is one of the better cozies I have come across so far in my cozy mystery reading experience. It feels like you're reading one of those old English gothic novels. It has a good mixture of supernatural mystery to satisfy those in need of a creepy but not so creepy experience, and there's a good plot and regular mystery behind it, making you try to guess who is behind all of these strange coincidences. I liked it how they brought in most of the characters from Pride and Prejudice it was nice t More...

This book was so good. The characters in this book are mostly same than in the Pride and Prejudice, but there is also new characters like Mr. Parrish, rich american who marries Ms. Bingley. Everyone thinks Mr. Parrish is charming and a gentleman, but in the end, he is something very different that everyone thought. There is also Mr. Randolph, american archeologist, who is Mr. Parrish's friend.
This book is about the few first weeks of Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage. They are planning to go to Pem More...

All the beloved characters from Pride and Prejudice are back in this outlandish story of murder, mystery and disorder at Netherfield Park.
The story begins the day after the double wedding of Elizabeth and Darcy, and Jane and Bingley. A surprising announcement of Caroline Bingley’s engagement to an American Sugar Plantation owner disrupts the celebration plans for the newly wedded couples. To make matter worse, Caroline’s engagement is rushed into an expeditious marriage as her betrothed desires More...

I am a huge Jane Austen fan and Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite novels. I was delighted there were mysteries based on Mr. and Mrs. Darcy from P & P. The author did a nice job with the character development, but that is the only thing that ultimately salvaged this book for me. She took the story down a road that is very un-Austen like and cheapened the elegance and sophistication of the genre. On a more positive note, I have read another one of her Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mysteries and i More...

I did really like this book, however, I think it would have been better as a stand-alone. The characters were too modern for my taste (I kept picturing them in late Victorian England, like Thomas and Charlotte Pitt or Sherlock Holmes), and they changed from my beloved Darcy and Elizabeth that I remembered from Austen. The romance was too engineered, the dialogue, while close to the original, felt a bit contrived. Elizabeth, too keen to believe in all sorts of preposterous things (which, I'll war More...

I had put off reading these for ages, because I normally don't like a new author taking a beloved set of characters from the classics and 'extending' their stories. But this was recently recommended to me by a GR friend who felt that the author did a credible job with the characters. I must say, I agree. I love the original Pride and Prejudice, and was relieved to find that Ms. Bebris did a fantastic job of respecting Ms. Austen and the characters themselves.

The mystery itself was clever. I don' More...

I usually steer clear of all the prequels, sequels and embellishments to the Austen canon, but after meeting Carrie Bebris I was so engaged by her bubbly personality and enthusiasm for the subject that I started the series.

The book shows a high degree of understanding of Regency fashions and social mores, and an obvious admiration of the Darcys. In some ways its nice to revisit old friends and find out what happened after the final page of P&P, but I do wonder if this same novel could have b More...

Having just read "Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James, I was eager to read another Austen pastiche. This one was highly recommended by a friend and I really enjoyed it. The story takes place right after the double wedding of Darcy and Elizabeth and Jane and Bingley. The conversations between Darcy and Elizabeth sparkle with wit and playfulness. The mystery is intriguing and characters are true to form. Jane is almost too good to be true, as usual; Bingley, charming and ever-attentive to Jane More...

Le crisi di astinenza da un certo libro o un certo autore sono cosa assai dannosa per i poveri lettori che, nel disperato tentativo di soffocare la nostalgia,finiscono vittime di acquisti incauti e avventati (altrimenti noti come prequel o sequel). Nel caso di un'autrice come Jane Austen, il numero di sequel e/o rivisitazioni dei suoi romanzi è tale che la possibilità di incappare in solenni schifezze aumenta in modo pericoloso. Bisogna anche dire che lo standard di partenza è così elevato che, More...

I really enjoyed Pride & Prescience. Bebris did a good job, in my opinion, of capturing Regency England and the way that people would speak and think - although there were a couple glaringly obvious problems with some dialogue: a few instances where words from modern-day America were used and that kind of ruined the scene - for me, at least.

Going into it knowing that it was going to be a little bit... unexpected definitely helped with the ending. That's really the only problem I have with it More...

This book was a weird mash-up of early nineteenth-century genres--the marriage of Austen and Udolpho, as it were. Not unpleasant, but odd. I liked the way Bebris fleshed out the world of Mr & Mrs Darcy, and the idea that their post-marital fate is to solve every body's tangled relationships and fix their crises--it's not implausible. The mystery is well-plotted and the solution isn't obvious because there are too many suspects skulking around Netherfield. Some of the period details seem off- More...

A follow-up to "Pride and Prejudice," this book is a light-hearted take on what might have happened next in the story - if Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy had taken up solving mysteries, of course. The characters and much of the language seem about right, and even the melodrama (due to the mystery) can be explained as being in character with the type of novels Jane Austen portrays young women as reading during this era. I'll try another book in the series; this one was fun, and it doesn't take itself to More...

Elizabeth Bennett has married Mr. Darcy and they are happily bound for their honeymoon.Caroline Bingley, one of their wedding guests. is engaged to marry a rich American. Unfortunately, their courtship is disturbed by strange events and carriage accidents. It seems that the whole Bingley family seems to be the target of a mysterious plot. The bride is on the brink of a nervous breakdown and the newlyweds work together to bring down the culprit. This was a great "sequel" to Pride and Prejudice. t More...

The second half of this book was a lot better than the first half. I still agree with my comment earlier though: this is not a traditional mystery.
For a good half of the book, the real mystery is who will die first...who is the real target of the horrible series of events?
In addition, there is no real sleuth--it's an Elizabeth-Darcy combo, but neither of them set out like a traditional sleuth, intent upon solving the crime. Elizabeth spends a good part of the book thinking about everything, bu More...