What If Elizabeth Wasn’t Impatient To Depart Netherfield?

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Source: Review Copy from Author

TYPE OF NOVEL: Pride and Prejudice Variation

TIME FRAME: Begins while Elizabeth and Jane are at Netherfield

SYNOPSIS: Elizabeth Bennet accidentally overhears Caroline Bingnley teasing Mr. Darcy about her fine eyes and it gives her some pause…Mr. Darcy is a puzzle she would definitely like to solve! With some new revelations and interactions together that help reform her opinion of this proud and disagreeable man, Elizabeth doesn’t fight Mrs. Bennet’s machinations to prolong their stay at Netherfield. How do two more days at Netherfield impact Elizabeth and Darcy? What does it change for Bingley and Jane? Does this new course produce any alterations for Mr. Collins, Caroline Bingley, or George Wickham?

WHAT I LOVED:

• Just A Slight, Subtle Change: I love this premise. I love how such a slight change can cause so many ripples! I love that this premise made sense and all the alterations it produced were plausible. Heather Moll found a unique new path to explore, and I appreciated her thoughtful and deft execution. I especially enjoyed all the small details and touches that Ms. Moll connected with this premise, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and other novels.

• Friendship and Courting: Awww…Darcy and Elizabeth are so cute together! 🥰 I loved seeing how Lizzy warms to Darcy and steers their acquaintanceship into friendship, and Darcy happily allows her familiarity and camaraderie. :💕 Heather Moll devises some situations and scenes that allow Elizabeth and Darcy some time alone, and I just loved witnessing the progression of their new and amicable friendship into ardent admiration and love. *sigh* That night at Longbourn…. *swoon*

• Poetry and Games: Again, I love the little touches Heather Moll skillfully adds to her story, such as Darcy loaning and discussing his books to Elizabeth and the clever word games the group played together. I loved the sweet connection Darcy and Elizabeth shared together over their reading and all the covert messages they were sending to each other through the word games!

• A Twist in Obstacles: With their newfound amity, Darcy and Elizabeth do not have their pride and their prejudices interfering and creating havoc. But never fear, Heather Moll devises some interesting, unexpected, and devious obstacles that create some delicious tension and turmoil!. And GAH!!! She employs these new obstacles at the most inopportune moments!! I enjoyed these clever and believable (mostly) twists Heather Moll threw in their way!

WHAT I WASN’T TOO FOND OF:

• Small Quibbles: There were some slower moving sections of this plot that maybe could have been trimmed a little. Georgiana’s storyline felt a little uneven. And I will admit I wasn’t as fond of the Christmas activities in Derbyshire and felt it detracted and weakened some aspects of the story. (SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT!) In addition, while I enjoyed the new obstacles created, I’d like to believe that Darcy wouldn’t be so easily impeded and that he wouldn’t be so quick to judge and alter his opinion about Elizabeth.

NOTE: A few very brief scenes become a little amorous with some references made to intimate situations, I would recommend this story for Mature Audiences.

CONCLUSION:

Tentative friendships, inventive twists, and reverent characterizations – Two More Days at Netherfield is another nuanced and well-crafted Pride and Prejudice variation from them pen of Heather Moll! If you love stories where the exchanges between Darcy and Elizabeth are playful and passionate, the stolen moments together are sincere and sweet, and the journey is enthralling and emotionally turbulent, I entreat you give this story a try!

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