I’ve been an avid reader almost since I was able to read. I absolutely fell in love with books right about the time I hit junior high. Since it was required to read a lot in high school, I fell off the band wagon for a couple years with personal reads. College came around, well really, Twilight came around and that’s when I really got back into the whole “read for yourself for your personal enjoyment.” The whole vampire scene really got me back into books, and since then I’ve been reading almost anything I can get my hands on. I’ve read the whole Twilight saga, most Anne Rice, and now I’m stuck on Mary Janice Davidson’s Undead and Unwed collection. Mr. Darcy Vampyre was a great find for me. Jane Austin has always been a classic, especially when it comes to Pride and Prejudice.
My mother and I have always shared our books, and when she dropped off Mr. Darcy Vampyre, I was more than excited to dive into the love on Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett once again. I rolled through this book pretty fast, it had a lot of anticipation to go along with it. The book starts off at the honeymoon of Mr. Darcy and Mrs. Darcy. They are off to start their life together, but first take a trip to France and for so much needed sightseeing. Most of their time together shows Darcy as a cold-hearted, disagreeable man. At some point Elizabeth even questions whether or not is was the right decision to marry him. His interest in her plays down on his love and affection for Elizabeth.
Throughout the entirety of their honeymoon, while Mr. Darcy has basically ignored his bride, the marriage is still unconsummated. Elizabeth starts to worry, until the truth is finally revealed. The climax doesn’t begin until the last fifty pages of the book. The other 270 were basically just drawn and played out in a very dull fashion.
Overall, I was disappointed in Mr. Darcy Vampyre. It may be that I had different intentions for the book, and was dissatisfied that they played Darcy out to be this disagreeable man that readers were already over within the original Pride and Prejudice. I look forward to reading other author’s interpretation of Pride and Prejudice with a vampire twist.
