alex_cabrera

There are so many of these Pride and Prejudice spinoffs that you really cannot keep count with them. Me and Mr Darcy by Alexandra Potter is one of them. It is a story about life, love and most importantly dating literature's ultimate hottie, Mr. Darcy. Emily Albright from New York has got some horribly dates. She is getting desperate. She decides that everything is over between her and modern-day life. She would rather just curl up at sofa, take out her favorite novel, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and start reading about the man of her dreams, Mr. Darcy. When her best friend suggest a wild party trip to Mexico with the girls, Emily decided to fell to England for a guided tour of Jane Austen's country. The trip is not like she expected. The bus is filled with giggling old ladies and only one men, Spike Hargreaves, a journalist writing an article about why Mr. Darcy has earned the title of the most desired men of the world. At points the story gets all supernatural when Emily suddenly meets Mr. Darcy himself. Darcy is broodinly handsome and the first time Emily sees him he rides across the field in a damp shirt which clings to his chest. (lol) All this supernaturality and the fact that at points Emily and Darcy start to speak the words Elizabeth and Darcy speak in Pride and Prejudice just made me laugh, not in a good way. Emily starts to question that is Mr. Darcy really the man he wants, or is someone else, perhaps Spike, more her type. Eventually Emily stops dreaming about Mr. Darcy because he is fantasy and settles for something else. Okay, the idea of this novel is... okay? But otherwise, it was pretty much crap to be honest. The beginning of the novel was okay, the ending so so, but otherwise, don't bother to read this book. The name of the novel made me all interested about it, even the synopsis at the cover was okay, but as a novel, this was a disappointment for me.

2023-06-11 15:25