Where There's a FitzWILLiam Darcy

There's a Way

By: Regina Jeffers

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

To him that will, ways are never wanting.

ELIZABETH BENNET’s world has turned upon its head. Not only is her family about to be banished from their beloved Longbourn after her father’s sudden death, but Mr. Darcy has appeared upon her threshold, not to renew his proposal, as she first feared, but, rather, to serve as Mr. Collins’s agent in taking an accounting of the estate’s “treasures” before her father’s cousin steals away all her memories of the place.

FITZWILLIAM DARCY certainly has no desire to encounter Elizabeth Bennet again so soon after her mordant refusal of his hand in marriage, but when his aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, strikes a bargain in which her ladyship agrees to provide his Cousin Anne a London Season if Darcy will become Mr. Collins’s agent in Hertfordshire, Darcy accepts in hopes he can convince Miss Elizabeth to think better of him than she, obviously, does. Yet, how can he persuade the woman to recognize his inherent sense of honor, when his inventory of Longbourn’s entailed land and real properties announces the date she and her family will be homeless?

Lots of Potential

The premise was intriguing, but too many illogical twists left me frustrated. Why would Mr. Bennet make the discovery of his will a scavenger hunt? Why would Great Grandma Gardner put so many ridiculous conditions on her bequest? Why would Elizabeth hold hands with and kiss Mr. Darcy, but turn down his proposal? Why do so many JAFFs spend hours dragging out the foolishness, only to have a quickie resolution in the last five minutes? Why spend those same hours introducing us to a bevy of supporting characters, only to marry them off to complete strangers in the epilog?? Sheesh.

Mr. Darcy should have accepted the first refusal

Sometimes when the Elizabeth character is so arrogant and mean, I wish the Mr. Darcy would just walk away and find a new love. The mean Elizabeth is just not worth his time. That was the situation in this book - I found the Elizabeth to be intolerable. I really did not quite understand the conditions involved with the estate that the Bennett girls could inherit. Very confusing to me.