Now, The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice is billed as a love story with a Jane Austen twist. I can handle that. The story of Cassie (marine biologist) and Calder (his father is a senator...one of those senators with Old Money and a big ego) falls squarely in the category of contemporary romance: she's mega-smart, has a unique job, and is effortlessly gorgeous, he's standoffish, rich, and HOT ergo they will have some sort of conflict and then wind up together.
Pretty nice, right? And it was a nice story with a good writing style...until a zillion loads of dirty laundry got in the way (his and hers). At some point the storyline gets really complicated with pen names, social/class issues, spousal abuse issues, research funding problems, and so on - I really couldn't keep track. The falling action was so drawn out that the last 50 or so pages seemed unneccesary. It definitely could have used some cuts. (I also thought that Calder's book - it supplants Darcy's letter to Lizzy - could have been much better written if all he was doing was modernizing Austen to apologize to Cassie).
Unless I missed it, I don't think it's explained why Calder is "The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice"....
Unless I missed it, I don't think it's explained why Calder is "The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice"....
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