This sequel to Pride and Prejudice focuses on Anne de Bourgh. I was excited to read Anne’s story because she is often overlooked. However, Anne’s story only takes up a part of the book. The rest tells the romances of the Bennett sisters ad Georgiana Darcy. Therefore, the synopsis was a bit misleading. The characters also do feel like the original novel. Thus, it had an excellent premise but was not executed well. Still, I recommend this for fans of Jane Austen!

ames Wollak has put a heavy burden on his shoulders, that of finding husbands for the two remaining Bennet sisters and Anne, whose mother, in Pride and Prejudice, is unable to marry off her brooding cousin Darcy. In his matrimonial anxiety, the author not only manages to get the three girls in question married, but also sets up a whirlwind of marriages that if the reader were to attend all the lunches, the effect would be the like of "La Grande Bouffe"e. The book is cute, but Wollak, however willing, is not Austen and his characters are too good, too shallow and too conventional.

I want to be nice to this first time author who probably paid for the packaging and promotion of this. . However I also think it’s important to let readers know what to expect, especially as this book is likely to attract the existing Jane Austen fandom. Cynically I think that someone somewhere expects to make money simply from riding the coattails of P&P as people are sure to pay a few bucks on the chance this is good.

It’s not good. The writing is lacking in every way. Shifting POV in the midst of narrative, lack of character development, language and dialogue not true to the time. Any one of these could have been overlooked but combined they weigh down the story to where it wasn’t worth continuing.

The book was good for what it was. I haven't read Pride & Prejudice so maybe that affected my reading experience. I really didn't enjoy the book as much as I hoped I would but I also wouldn't call it a bad book. I would definitely like to pick it up again if I ever get around to reading Pride & Prejudice. If unlike me you have read read Pride & Prejudice then I would actually recommend this book. A 2.5 from me, but again not a bad book.

I am a Jane Austen fan, and have read several 'sequels' to Pride and Prejudice that I have really enjoyed. Unfortunately, this wasn't quite my cup of tea. I have therefore not published this on my Goodreads account as I am aware this is a first-time author, but felt I owed the publishers an honest review in return for the free review copy.

The characters themselves, on the whole, acted in a true to their original manners (with a few exceptions) and it is always genuinely lovely to return to the Bennets' world and the cast of characters Austen created. I did feel that the dialogue and some of the characters' actions, however, were quite unlikely. I was really interested to read more about Anne de Bourg so was quite surprised that the plot was divided into third between her, Georgiana and Kitty with big sections focussing on each character. Although it was great to imagine more of their futures, the blurb could be clearer about what to expect as I understood the book would focus on Anne. It felt as though the author might not have enough ideas about Anne to warrant a whole book about solely her character.

Perhaps as a Brit and someone with a degree in literature I have a more critical view of attempts to replicate Austen's style, and I am sure that Wollak will find many sympathetic readers for this sequel written to tie up all the loose ends from Pride and Prejudice, and which has clearly been written with a great devotion to the original.

Once I realized that this was not a novel based on Austen's less-developed characters, and was instead an attempt at a complete sequel to the book, I could sink into it and enjoy it for what it was. Unfortunately, I wish I enjoyed it more but I couldn't get past how hard it felt that Wollak was trying to capture and replicate Austen's language.

I certainly liked the idea of wrapping up the storylines of underdeveloped characters like Anne De Bourgh and Georgiana as they look to find their very own Lizzy/Darcy love story. But I would've preferred if Wollak had instead dug into the characters and their background and what may have driven them to act the way they did in P&P, rather than attempting to finish their stories while dragging our favorite P&P characters back into the plot.

Rather a lovely continuation of Pride and Prejudice. I'm sure many fans will have wondered what happened to all the Bennet girls after the end of Austen's novel, and this novel delivers not only that, but includes (and indeed, largely focuses on) Anne De Bourg too.

It can feel a tad disjointed at times, plunging us into a location and plot point, and then later beginning a new chapter with the fact that the characters have arrived there, making one sometimes wonder if they've skipped ahead, or back, or somehow read chapters out of sequence, but it doesnt spoil the narrative.

All in all, we are presented with a welcome extension to one of the world's best loved novels, in a style that indicates the author's love of Austen's own unique style of wit and warmth.

I loved the idea of this book, making Anne de Bourgh the heroine. The author did a good job of bringing Anne to life and telling her story. I also like what he did with the story lines of Kitty and Mary, it was nice to get a more in depth look at their characters. I just could not really get into the book though, one reason is I found the dialogue just didn't seem to me to be how any of the characters would really talk. There was no wit from Lizzie and practically no words from Mrs. Bennet at all which was truly surprising. The sparkle and wit from the original story is sadly lacking in this one.

I liked this book, which was inspired by Pride & Prejudice. It focused on several of the novel's minor characters, including Darcy's sister, Elizabeth's unmarried sisters, and Lady Catherine's daughter, while adding new and delightful people to the mix as these young ladies pursue marriage.

Unlike so many novels that follow Austen's great novel, this one stayed very true to the characters, allowing them to grow and mature in .perfectly agreeable ways

I only have one complaint, and that is with the novel's structure, not the plot. A more experienced writer would have interwoven the stories of the four protagonists with each other. Wollak did not do this/ As a result, even though the same people kept appearing, I often felt s if I was reading several different novels instead of a single one.

Even with this fault, I thoroughly enjoyed the book.