Tandie's Reviews > An Arranged Marriage: A Pride & Prejudice Alternate Path

** listened to this on audio 3-1-22. This was an excellent story! The last chapters are drawn out and boring, more of an epilogue. This story loses a star for that.
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A decent Pride & Prejudice spin. Mr Bennett dies shortly after Darcy's disastrous proposal where Elizabeth rejected him. He offers for her again 6 months later when her family is on the brink of having to move from Longborn. He makes a contract with Lizzy and will take care of her entire family if she'll marry him and put on a good public face. Darcy also promises not to demand his conjugal marital rights, that relations would only ever occur if Elizabeth came to him on her own. She's thinking, "When pigs fly!" So, she agrees to a sham marriage.

A few things were just too contrived, like the sleepwalking. Still, it was nice to see her fall for Darcy and discover that he's a good man. A gentleman too, he never takes liberties. Clean romance. They eventually consummate the marriage, but nothing detailed. Fade to black bedroom shenanigans, which was nice, because reading dirty Darcy & Elizabeth feels so wrong. I didn't have to clutch my pearls or anything.