Will Darcy is in wealth management and whose family line stretches back far and wide and the owner of Pemberley, the New York possible hot spot event space. Lizzy Bennet is a struggling interior designer currently working as a glorified admin assistant and works at Meryton, a burlesque club, at night. Somehow the four sisters are wrapped into it, as is Wickham, and Pemberly and Meryton become name of places or villages.Įnter A Certain Appeal which takes the Pride and Prejudice trope for a refreshing and sexy spin. The heroine is Elizabeth Bennet and the hero is Fitzwilliam Darcy. So, what make a story an exact Pride and Prejudice retelling? Honestly? It’s the use of names. It’s one of most popular tropes in the romance genre. The story of a couple who can’t stand each other, realise how terribly wrong they are about the other, and then have a HEA is a story of all times. They can either be really good or really terrible (hello Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and you really don’t know until you get into the story.īut Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is ripe for retelling.
Pride and Prejudice retellings are a crapshoot. (Other reviews: Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly (starred review))
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