Review: Mr Darcy Broke My Heart - Beth Pattillo

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Review: Mr Darcy Broke My Heart - Book #2 Adventures with Jane Austen and Her Legacy Series - Beth Pattillo - February 2010

Unlike her sister Claire Prescott has never really seen the importance and the fascination with Mr Darcy and anything Austen. She is umeployed and happy -well sort-of with her baseball sport loving boyfriend Neil. Claire and Austen do not mix , but when her sister is offered the chance to head over to England and attend an Austen seminar and then when family circumstances dictate that Claire's sister cannot go. She offers to go in place for her and take notes of the Pride and Prejudice seminar and also present on behalf of her sister the paper she has written on Pride and Prejudice. While at the conference , two things happen to Claire that will make her question her thoughts about Jane Austen and Mr. Darcy and make her wonder whether Mr. Darcy really does exist in reality or is it an expectation that should remain just in Austen's books between the pages ? The first is that Claire will meet fellow conference attendee James and it seems that he is her Mr. Darcy and is perfect in everyway , but will he break her heart and prove her theory that Darcy's do not really exist for the Happily ever afters ? The second thing is that while exploring around Claire comes across a copy of Jane Austen's original draft of Pride and Prejudice at that stage titled First Impressions and is suprised to discover that Austen was not going to originally pair Lizzie Bennett with Mr. Darcy. It seems though that others want that manuscript especially those part of the secret Austen Society whose goal it is to protect her Legacy for years to come.
This was a fun chick-lit novel and fans of Jane Austen Fiction will love and for those who aren't Darcy Fans will be sort-of once they have finished the pages.

 

 

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