Rebecca Collins

I love reading continuations of the Pride and Prejudice story and this was really good once it got going. The start was a little slow for my liking establishing characters etc. That said I have now added the second book in this seris to my to be read pile. If you like this sort of book it is worth the read.

Thanks to Sandy (sjmccreary for point me in the direction of the P&P sequels.)

This is the first of the series by Rebecca Ann Collins which takes the Jane Austen characters from Pride & Prejudice (P&P) and continues their story in her own particular way.

In Pemberley Chronicles, the reader not only sees how Elizabeth and Darcy's lives advance, we are also shown the lesser characters of P&P and are introduced to the next generation of Darcys, Gardiners, and Bingleys. We see their joys and show more heartbreaks, successes and failures. This book also tries to include some historical accuracy of the issues in Great Britain of the time.

Reading several of the P&P sequels and comparing the writing styles and to an extent the story content, I have to admit that even though I liked this book for what it told and I'll go on in the series, I prefer the Sharon Lathan series more - at this point. show less

AVOID this edition of this book at all costs. It is self-published/POD, and the text is so tiny as to be illegible. I got stuck with a copy via PaperbackSwap (had asked for the Sourcebook version, got this instead.) Not only that, but the entire book is printed in ITALICS!
Mine isn't autographed, so there's no value here; there's certainly no value to the book, since I can't read it without a magnifying glass. (I have perfect vision...)
Another oddity is that it's been printed without show more indentations to tell you when a new chapter is beginning, and while the left side of the page is 'flush' (meaning the lines all start at the same place), the right-hand side is 'ragged' (meaning that lines stop all over the place, as much as a full inch apart, even in the middle of a sentence.
Just dreadful printing job; whoever did it should be banned from the profession. I won't rate the book, because the printing makes it worth less than a single star, while I can't actually read the book to tell you if it's good, when there are 8.5 lines of text crammed into one inch... show less

While the author does say in the preface that she makes no attempt to mimic Austen's inimitable style, the complete and total shift, especially in dialogue, makes this almost unrecognizable as Pride & Prejudice. And the actual plot isn't interesting enough to make up for it; Collins can't bear to hurt Elizabeth, so her marriage is blissful, all the original characters love her (she even redeems Charlotte Collins), and I fell asleep. The political plot in the middle is tacked on and show more ill-integrated, the next generation has virtually no distinguishing characteristics, and basically, this is not worth the paper it's printed on. show less