Rumours & Recklessness
Nicole Clarkston
3/5
Another Kindle Unlimited JAFF because I'm bored and these are amazingly easy to get invested into. The variation here regards Mr. Bennet, who falls from his horse and puts his family in a dangerous position. This expedites the process of Darcy's proposal and sets the stage for future misunderstandings and confusion.
The earlier proposal took away the major conflict of the original book. There's barely any time at all when Elizabeth is actually angry at Darcy for his pride, where there's that critical misunderstanding where both think they're doing the right thing yet are completely missing each other. I'm not saying that that makes it bad, it just makes them all kind of out of characters and departed from the tropes which P&P established. I know that the point of these books is to add a twist to the original, but I'd like for it to remain relative consistent with established characterization.
It had fun parts though, like any variation. I think these are so interesting and fun to read even if they take the characters away from who they were. It was a little long though given the content and the trials which the characters faced. It felt like it was being drawn out for no reason at certain points. I don't think it's all that historically accurate at all, Elizabeth would get into much more trouble for the scenes she and Darcy created but I also think they were fun. Not great as an accurate representation, but still an interesting read.
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