Cruz has crafted a cute rom-com like book with the main beats of the beloved classic, and it’s fabulous. Pride and Prejudice meets 10 Things I Hate About You? Check. Zombies eating everybody? Check, but wait, I must find a suitable husband – lest the zombies eat my face off. Both that film and this book take the ridiculous scope of these characters’ goals and motivations and make them ten times more outlandish by placing the characters in crazy circumstances. If you’ve seen “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (I’m talking film, not the book), you’ll get where I’m coming from with this review. Melissa De La Cruz has taken that satire and turned it into a satire of that romantic satire, and it’s great. Mini rant aside, Pride and Prejudice is amazing as a satire – and I love it as such. I think it’s silly when it’s praised as a beautiful romance, because it’s not – it’s a satire on Austen’s society cloaked within a romance because that was the only way she could get it published as a woman at the time. I’m going to admit flat out that I am not the biggest fan of the original Pride and Prejudice to begin with.
But why can’t she stop thinking of Luke? What is it about him? And can she fall in love, or will her pride and his prejudice against big-city girls stand in their way? When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it’s just another one night stand. He comes from a family of five brothers, each one less ambitious than the other. He’s a carpenter and makes beautiful furniture, and is content with his simple life. Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her dad and little brother. Darcy’s never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else’s drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones-one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Source: Publisher in exchange for a honest review Summary from Goodreads:ĭarcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant.
See it is an assumption universally made that any beautiful, brilliant, single woman who is rich as hell will be in want of a husband.
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