The Coming of Age of Elizabeth Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation | 
I really struggled with the #hundreds prompt for #200PnPcovers and landed on this one because it says in the blurb that she has to go “200 miles away to live“ and decided that was good enough for me 😂 As with most of these variations, this one was a mixed bag. Here, the story starts much earlier than the original. Mr. B. dies when E is 15, and just before his death, writes to his old friend George Darcy and asks him to take E as his ward. The ⬇
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) problem is that what the author really wanted to was to make D & E get married, so she had to make E old enough for that to happen but young enough to make E running away from home to avoid being sent to Pemberley realistic... and she kind of failed, because E just comes through as a spoiled little child. As the story progresses, though, things get better as E becomes a much more likable character. Of course, another weakness in the ⬇ 2y
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) way this story is set up is that the age difference is kind of creepy, which the author solves by shipping D off here and there and everywhere for several years while E lives at Pemberley. The second half of the book, however, is really good. D comes home and he and E have to learn to live together as husband and wife. Their love story is sweet and fun. I only wish that second had been much longer and the beginning part much shorter! 2y
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mabell Clever use of 200! 2y
CrowCAH Interesting. Yeah, even for my novel I‘m writing the age difference is a concern that I‘m working on resolving! 2y
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