Rambling repetitive beginning in this sequel to a sequel. Still in soap opera style - I didn't particularly enjoy this book but it was addictive reading just like the first. You want to keep reading just to find out what will happen next. ( )

Darcy & Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley is Linda Berdoll's second story in her continuation of the Pride & Prejudice story.
[If you're a Jane Austen purist, stop reading here.]
I do find Berdoll's books to be a lot of fun. She contines the P&P story from a modern perspective but manages to use much of Austen's style and insights. It's a fun combination if you ever wondered what happened between the sheets at Pemberley when those two explosive personalities met. Now We Know.
Of Berdoll's two books, I prefer the first. This one contains a lot of retelling of her first book and really doesn't have all that much plot and action for 429 large pages. But if you love Elizabeth and Darcy, it's worth it. ( )

I didn't think I would like this knock off book. I really enjoyed it though. ( )

Darcy & Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley is the sequel to Linda Berdoll’s Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife and since I so thoroughly enjoyed the first sequel, I thought I’d try my hand at Darcy & Elizabeth.

Darcy & Elizabeth doesn’t have the same flow as the first but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It was just kind of shocking how different the two styles of writing between her first “sequel” and the second was. I found this story easier to follow than Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife; and thought the addition of old and new characters added to the story instead of distracted from it. I think what happened to Lydia, and Elizabeth having to come to her aid, was very true of her character. I especially liked how the story didn’t focus on just Darcy and Elizabeth.

However, in the beginning, this one rehashes so much that happened in the first book, almost like you’re reading SparkNotes, that I feel like nothing happens for the first 100 pages. It takes a while for the novel to get going but once it does, it reads like even better FanFiction than the first.

All in all, I liked Darcy & Elizabeth, but I don’t love it, and I really wanted to love it. ( )

From the very beginning, I had a sneaking suspicion that this book was not going to be as good as it's predecessor. First of all, the author was continually rehashing much of what occured in the first book. Okay, that was my first gripe. Then, she seemed determined to impress upon us just how much Darcy still lusted after his wife's enormous bosom (due to breastfeeding the twins) while Lizzy was terribly unhappy with her post-pregnant figure, ignorant of how lush and pleasurable Darcy found it. Bodily fluids seemed to be talked about ad nauseum as well!

As I continued on (against my better judgement, I really felt like tossing the book in the garbage it was so tedious at points) I was getting more and more fed up with the plotlines, that centered very much around Wickham and his past conquests, whether it was Lydia or some Parisian courtesan that sought revenge upon him for impregnating her ages ago while at Cambridge. These plotlines were my least favorite in the first book and seemed to be center stage in this one! Interspersed was a Georgiana/Col. Fitz plotline as well as Lady Catherine who was still determined to unite Rosings Park with Pemberley come hell or high water. The fact that Georgiana lied about being pregnant, thus tricking the Colonel into marrying her was glossed over as well as her rapidly getting pregnant with him, in spite of the fact he's still hobbling around from his injuries and forced to partake of the waters of Bath for their honeymoon.

I was told to keep reading... and so I did.

Finally, the book got good around the last 75 pages or so, but it did not make up for the first 350 pages I slogged through!

Yet, it was enjoyable to read about this Darcy and his long legs, his everpresent ability to stand proud and erect (as another part of his body ), and he even has the ability to sit down without having to adjust his coat tails as other men do! He and Lizzy after much trial and tribulations are finally able to resume their passionate life together in and out of their marriage bed.

I thought it was very clever and ironic to have Marie-Therese be Cesarine's daughter (Wickham's). That was very good, yet the way she wrapped it all up at the end, having him sign away his name and agree to be Tom Reed, I didn't think that would hold water. It seemed kind of fuzzy and not well thought out. And, it was predictable he'd get shot in the balls too. I was just waiting for it to happen. Don't waste your time with this one, there a lot more fanfic out there online that is better than this drivel. ( )