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Stranded at Pemberley
When Elizabeth Bennet injures herself at Pemberley, the doctor insists she remain in Mr. Darcy's house until she has recovered. Confined to a bed for most of her stay, Elizabeth is often plagued by restlessness and uncertainty. To her surprise, Elizabeth still manages to grow her friendship with Georgiana Darcy and fall in love with the man she once refused to marry.
(A Non-cannon Pride and Prejudice Variation)
(A Non-cannon Pride and Prejudice Variation)
124 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 18, 2016
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July 12, 2017
Such a very odd, very off-canon, very OOC story. I've finished reading this, and I'm not sure what I just read. There appears to be a whole lot of missing backstory.
It starts with Elizabeth having a serious fall on Pemberley land. This is after the Hunsford proposal and refusal, and assumably during Elizabeth's trip to Lambton with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner. What's strange is that everyone around Pemberley seems to know her already. This includes the Jansens (tenants of Mr. Darcy), Dr. Mills and his daughter Clara, Georgiana (with whom Elizabeth is very chummy) and Mrs. Reynolds. There's no mention at all of Mr. Wickham (except in passing by Georgiana related to Ramsgate) or of the rest of the Bennet family or of the Bingleys. There's also no mention of Darcy's supposed engagement to Anne de Bourgh.
Mrs. Gardiner's personality seems odd, too. I have trouble believing that Jane Austen's Mrs. Gardiner would accidentally give her niece an overdose of laudanum. Local gossip surrounding Elizabeth's sojourn at Pemberley (under doctor's orders not to be moved) assumes Mrs. Gardiner is less than reliable as a chaperone. She only confirms this when she wants to leave her niece and Darcy alone together in Elizabeth's bedchamber. What?!?!
Georgiana comes across as older, while Elizabeth seems younger and more immature than in canon. They appear to have a long-standing friendship. How this is possible, I haven't a clue. Georgiana even insists upon being brought from Matlock to Pemberley when she learned her dear friend was injured.
Somehow it's in Elizabeth's head that Darcy has a tendre for Clara Mills. Even before Clara enters the story, Elizabeth has this opinion. No explanation for it is given, although the reader doesn't even know who Clara is at that point.
There are also references to Elizabeth and Darcy being close friends and the others having observed their bantering exchanges often. When did this happen? None of the other characters in this story were at Netherfield, and Darcy was mostly silent in Kent, where only Colonel Fitzwilliam would have observed them together. They haven't seen each other since then. Again, the reader is missing information the author seems to assume we know.
Even if you took the P&P label off of this and give the characters other names, the plot has too many holes to follow.
The quality of the writing and dialogue isn't bad. It's hard to assess when the story is so distractingly confusing, though.
It starts with Elizabeth having a serious fall on Pemberley land. This is after the Hunsford proposal and refusal, and assumably during Elizabeth's trip to Lambton with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner. What's strange is that everyone around Pemberley seems to know her already. This includes the Jansens (tenants of Mr. Darcy), Dr. Mills and his daughter Clara, Georgiana (with whom Elizabeth is very chummy) and Mrs. Reynolds. There's no mention at all of Mr. Wickham (except in passing by Georgiana related to Ramsgate) or of the rest of the Bennet family or of the Bingleys. There's also no mention of Darcy's supposed engagement to Anne de Bourgh.
Mrs. Gardiner's personality seems odd, too. I have trouble believing that Jane Austen's Mrs. Gardiner would accidentally give her niece an overdose of laudanum. Local gossip surrounding Elizabeth's sojourn at Pemberley (under doctor's orders not to be moved) assumes Mrs. Gardiner is less than reliable as a chaperone. She only confirms this when she wants to leave her niece and Darcy alone together in Elizabeth's bedchamber. What?!?!
Georgiana comes across as older, while Elizabeth seems younger and more immature than in canon. They appear to have a long-standing friendship. How this is possible, I haven't a clue. Georgiana even insists upon being brought from Matlock to Pemberley when she learned her dear friend was injured.
Somehow it's in Elizabeth's head that Darcy has a tendre for Clara Mills. Even before Clara enters the story, Elizabeth has this opinion. No explanation for it is given, although the reader doesn't even know who Clara is at that point.
There are also references to Elizabeth and Darcy being close friends and the others having observed their bantering exchanges often. When did this happen? None of the other characters in this story were at Netherfield, and Darcy was mostly silent in Kent, where only Colonel Fitzwilliam would have observed them together. They haven't seen each other since then. Again, the reader is missing information the author seems to assume we know.
Even if you took the P&P label off of this and give the characters other names, the plot has too many holes to follow.
The quality of the writing and dialogue isn't bad. It's hard to assess when the story is so distractingly confusing, though.
July 30, 2017
This book featured one of the most annoying versions of Elizabeth Bennet I have ever tried to read. She falls at Pemberly and is luckily found and raced to Darcy's home. She is jealous of the Dr's daughter for talking to Darcy, give really strange advice to Georgiana, treats her Aunt strangely, and is just generally obnoxios. I skipped through most of it to see if the end got any better - it did not.
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