Insight and Suitability

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.

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.