This was an entertaining, quick-to-read Jane Austen spinoff. Odiwe throws in a number of new characters and tells us what happened after Lydia marries Mr. Wickham, which makes for a fresh story instead of a retelling of P&P from Lydia's point of view. Her Lydia, a high-spirited, often irresponsible but loyal and loving young woman, is believable and sympathetic. My only real complaint was that there's a loose end that's never tied up, in the form of a young man who pursues Lydia in the first part of the novel and who seems destined to put in a reappearance, but who never does.