Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
by Melissa de la Cruz
Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones—one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Darcy’s never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else’s drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. But when her mother falls ill, she feels obligated to come home to Pemberley, to spend the holiday with her family.
Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. Luke is 32-years-old and has never left home. He’s a carpenter who makes beautiful furniture and is content with his simple life. He comes from a family of five brothers, each one less ambitious than the other. When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it’s just another one-night stand. So why can’t she stop thinking about Luke? He’s so irritating—and yet? Can she fall in love, or will her pride and his prejudice against big-city girls stand in their way?
Favorite Quotes:
Wanting to be
near family and actually being near family were two completely different
things.
Actually, she had never had a favorite brother before;
she had only disliked them all equally for different reasons.
They just want
grandchildren, like all old people do… And you’re almost thirty. They don’t
want to die before they have a chance for you to reproduce. Or worse, stay
alive long enough to see you become infertile.
My Review:
I had considerable
difficulty liking Darcy as throughout most of the story she was rather odious, self-involved, prickly,
arrogant, thoughtless and insensitive, etc., all of which made her less than
appealing and unpalatable, although I did rather pity her a bit as her father
was even more toxic. She had few people
skills but Darcy was an extremely wealthy and intelligent businesswoman so when
her behavior became extremely erratic, impulsive, and unfocused, I decided she
must be unraveling as it was inconsistent with her professional success. The narrative was lavishly and colorfully
detailed with hits of clever humor and snark, although the story and several of
the characters lost cohesion somewhere in the middle and nearly lost me in the
process. I stayed the course and was
pleasantly relieved once Darcy finally settled herself for an honest
face-to-face conversation rather than her previous MO of irrational
overreaction and/or flight. The ending
was sweet deliverance for all parties and left me with a well-deserved sense of
satisfaction and a smile.
Empress DJ
About The Author:MELISSA DE LA CRUZ is the #1 New York Times,#1 Publisher’s Weekly and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages including the Disney Descendants novels, Alex and Eliza, Blue Bloods and Witches of East End, a one-hour television drama on Lifetime. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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