A Pair of Dancing Brown Eyes

By: Melanie Schertz, a Lady

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What if Elizabeth and Jane were the daughters of Mr Bennet's first wife, Eleanor, who died in childbirth bringing Elizabeth and her twin brother (who also died) into the world? Distraught, a few years later, he marries Fanny Philips who turns out to be a vicious and vindictive woman who holds Elizabeth to blame for all the wrongs in her life. The girls are forced to leave their family home to live in Lambton with an aunt and uncle, and they meet the Darcy family. What means will Fanny enact to revenge herself for all the wrongs she feels Elizabeth has done her?

Great until second half

I was really into this book during the first half, where the author should have concluded. At that point I would have given the book four or five stars. The second half was too long and bogged down in too many things going on and much of things irrelevant. There was just too much useless stuff which made the second half so boring. That is when I had to drop down to three stars. I did like it that the villains were justly punished. This author has a tendency to forgive horrible people. Thankfully she did not dish out forgiveness for the villains in this book. She shot them down with a vengeance - totally justified.

The virtual voice was better than than usual, but still needs improvement.

Elizabeth was insecure

Of course there should be some consciousness when you come from a poor family and your love is a high and rich member of society but one of the reasons I love P&P so much is that Elizabeth is head strong and seemingly confident. This story portrayed her as very insecure and it just wasn’t what I expect from my girl.