The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy

This book has become one of my most favorite Pride and Prejudice related books. It's a very smart modern twist of P & P, along with very witty and sensuous dialogue. I like that there is a bit of risque and erotic ennuendo with the sexual situations...and those situations are definitely HOT and not ungenerously sprinkled throughout the whole book. Having a wonderful gay best friend, a lesbian co-worker/friend is refreshingly... Read Full Review

Many modern adaptations of Pride and Prejudice fall short because the author tries to "rewrite" the story but forgets to develop the characters. I found some of the "connections" to P & P to be a bit of a stretch (i.e., Meryton is a suburb of San Francisco and this F. Darcy is the great, great, great, great, great grandson of the character we Austen fans all love), but the characterization between Darcy and Elizabeth is still... Read Full Review

I loved this book instantly. It was amazingly well written and captured me from the first page. I virtually read the whole thing in one day and have already begun rereading. It was interesting to see the connections to the real Pride and Prejudice as well as entertaining to read about Darcy and Elizabeth in present day terms. The love scenes were either tender or "hot" which I loved because it shows the range and depth... Read Full Review

I thought I would provide the back-cover blurb and a little more detail than the description above. A thoroughly modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy re-paints our favorite characters in twenty-first century colors. Judge Fitzwilliam Darcy has had enough. A transplanted Englishman roped into being a San Francisco judge at a young age, Will Darcy is ready... Read Full Review

... and the most swoonable Darcy as well (and if swoonable doesn't YET exist in the dictionaries, I'll plead my non-English speaking... :-) ) But I have to say that Sara Angelini managed to show us what we all suspected and Miss Austen didn't dare to (but mentioned it all the same!) by the time she wrote the wonderful story of Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet: the strong attraction which subsisted between the two of them from the... Read Full Review