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S'està carregant… Mr. Darcy, Vampyrede Amanda Grange
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. It was enjoyable enough that I will probably look into some of her other books, but it got very silly at the end with its Indiana Jones-like moments. Also, it was frustrating that Elizabeth didn't know what Darcy was for most of the book and that he felt the need to "break the curse". "Cursing" Elizabeth would have solved the problem, and it didn't seem like his life as a "vampyre" was that rough anyway. I did like the alternate explanation for Lady Catherine's hostilities-that was probably my favorite aspect of this book. I can't highly recommend it, but it was a nice readable gothic romance and a fairly quick read for people who want all the Darcy and Elizabeth they can get their hands on. Definitely better than the much-publicized Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. dnf @ page 95 i don't normally give star ratings to books i don't finish but this one was just Tedious and the author uses too many dialogue tags. i also haven't heard one mention of vampires in the nearly 100 pages i read and got fed up with waiting for them. basically, if you couldn't tell from the title, darcy is a vampire and he married human elizabeth and he spent the 95 pages i read sulking about how their marriage won't work and fucking around in paris and the alps trying to figure out how they can stay married all the while not confiding any of this in elizabeth who is really just wondering when she's going to get her wedding night.
However, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre is more than just the simple addition of vampire lore to P&P; instead, Amanda Grange has crafted a clever homage to the Gothic novels that Jane Austen so enjoyed. As in all of Ms. Grange’s Austen-inspired novels, she has clearly done her homework, and Mr. Darcy, Vampyre most strongly echoes Ann Radcliffe’s tales of psychological horror, incorporating all the elements that knowledgeable fans of the Gothic expect: a trip through the roughest and most picturesque parts of the Continent; loving descriptions of the scenery (though fortunately, unlike Radcliffe, they don’t go on for page after tiresome page, and there is no doggerel poetry further slowing things down); mysterious castles with oddly-behaving servants; banditti, mercenaries, and fearful, violent villagers; an accident that, Elizabeth is told, portends death; a story of another young lady just like Lizzy who arrived under similar circumstances and met a bad end; and there even is a “black veil” moment, when our heroine sees something so horrid she has no choice but to swoon. The reader is not immediately enlightened to the horror, though we can guess it; and, again fortunately unlike Radcliffe, Ms. Grange does not keep us hanging until the end of the book and then come up with a lame afterthought to close the loop. We also felt echoes of Dracula, Polidori’s seminal story “The Vampyre,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, and even a smidgen of Harry Potter. Inspirat en
December 1802 My hand is trembling as I write this letter. My nerves are in tatters and I am so altered that I believe you would not recognize me. The past two months have been a nightmarish whirl of strange and disturbing circumstances, and the future... I am afraid. If anything happens to me, remember that I love you and that my spirit will always be with you, though we may never see each other again. The world is a cold and frightening place where nothing is as it seems. "Absolutely Fascinating. Amanda Grange seems to have really got under Darcy's skin." --Historical Novel Society No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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It was a fun read, but I wish more of the book had been about the search for a cure - seemed kinda weak that Mr Darcy knew exactly where to find the mysterious temple... ( )