What a great book! I love Pride and Prejudice so I ...
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What a great book! I love Pride and Prejudice so I knew I was going to love Dirty English! Elizabeth has a lot of baggage from her past and is still trying to get over everything that happened to her. Declan made me swoon but he also made me so mad at him for Ken thing in particular but he still won me over for the most part. This book was way different from what I thought it was going to be about! Very enjoyable!
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My favorite!  I'm sure you did Jane Austen proud! I could not put this book down! I commend you on the modest way you handled the love scenes and the inappropriate  scenes with L. I appreciate the way you tided up the loose ends even down to the handkerchief. I look forward to more of your works. I'm sure you made your Maker proud! I have very much enjoyed your book and it has become my favorite variation! I thank you!
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WOW. I am so happy with the story Jenetta James gives us in The Elizabeth Papers.  This is one of the best books I have ever had the pleasure of reading...EVER!  I don't think I can sing its praises enough!  I want everyone who loves Pride and Prejudice to read it as well as anyone who loves a book so wonderfully written they can't get it out of their head to read it. I keep playing parts over and over in my mind, I LOVED IT!  It is the best of both worlds for Janeites like me who love our regency romance as well as our modern day adaptions.  Alternating from the past to the present, we get to see our favorite couple through the intimacy of letters. Letters that were so beautiful, it reinforces why we love The Darcy's. The suspense keeps you glued to the pages but the romance in this book makes you swoon! I still can't get over the originality of it all and how much I adored it!

The Elizabeth Papers is incredibly ingenuous! I want to read it again and again and again!!
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I truly enjoyed this book.  Ms. Aiden has a wonderful was of staying true to Austen while inserting her own personality.  I admit I do get a bit bored whenever Elizabeth is not nearby because I adore their relationship so much.  However, I can't wait for part 2 to arrive.  I think it was very clever to write from Darcy's point of view and I adore his valet.
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Did I love this as much as Pride and Prejudice.... hard to say.  But what a wonderful read it was!  Loved it!
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Although this is the first P&P fan fiction story I've read, I'm very familiar with the original.  From the onset, this book caught my attention and kept it the entire way though.  It was most of the same characters from the original with some new characters thrown in, which adds an exciting dynamic.  The story line keep with the time period and the social class issues that were faced by all, and although some have said Darcy was a dark character, I would say he was complex and struggling to understand and do the right thing while operating within the social norms of the time.  The author does a masterful job of taking the reader through the thoughts, fears, struggles, insights and revelations of Darcy & Elizabeth.  The story so parallels humanity's struggle with sin and God stepping in to provide the fix - the agent of change.  Darcy's redemption and Elizabeth's innate goodness and willingness to look for and see the good in others is very uplifting (we should all be more like Elizabeth!).

The book is extremely well written, the story line & characters are well fleshed-out, the language and style of writing are in keeping with Austen's original.  This is a great book - a must read!  I highly recommend it!  I can't wait for someone to make a movie out of it....
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This book was great!  If you are looking for a dark comedy you'll like this one!  I really liked the Pride and Prejudice movie and novel and it was cool to see the classic lines from the story again.  But, I liked the twists added even more by the entrance of zombies and the Bennet sister's new identities in this alternate England where a Strange Plague has surfaced and the dead don't stay that way for long.
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Jane Austen is a classic and I couldn't resist getting a book with her entire works. I loved Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, most recently; Mansfield park. I haven't read the rest of them yet but there are several stories, like Northanger Abbey and Emma, and Lady Susan. There's so much talent to her writing its hard to put it down. I've seen the films but I think the book can bring out a richer experience of the stories too. There's so much in her writing that really speaks to every girl and woman alike, from all sorts of generations, which only a classic can thrive and can stand the test of time. I definitely recommend it for anyone who is a Jane Austen fan or a future Jane Austen fan. Anyone can really enjoy this book.
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I won Miss Darcy's Companion in a giveaway on the Austen Authors website and I am so glad I did. Joana gave me a unique take on Pride & Prejudice while still staying mostly in the time frame of it. I was a little confused for the first half of the 1st chapter but after that it was smooth sailing. Tip: If you want to avoid my confusion look at the list of new characters in the back of the book first. I'll warn all you Jane Bennet fans out there that she isn't in here much but I didn't mind one bit. Without Jane, we get to see a friendship and sisterly affection blossom between Elizabeth and Georgina.
I always found it funny when I would find the ways Joana would just slightly change some of the lines from P&P to fit the story and they where some of my favorite. I'll give you an example of what you will be getting if you read this amazing book.
  "The ivy grows slowly day by day, and all through the night. Tendrils sprout, unfurl and reach to take hold. No noticeable difference from one day to the next, yet a time comes when one can see it has covered the entire wall, clinging so firmly that it leaves visible damage if torn off."
Thank you Joana for writing such an amazing book and giving me a chance to enjoy it.
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A great possible future-version of Darcy and Elizabeth and all their friends and relations. I can't wait to read all the books in this series. As a matter of fact, I am going off to read the next one now!
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I admit that I'm one of those people who loves Pride and Prejudice (both hardback and ebook, so I can read it whenever the mood strikes me) and who needs to watch the movie (BBC) once a year. And yes, I do go to Jane Austen tea parties. So it was a treat to find this book. I have most of Sarah Eden and Donna Hatch's books, but I hadn't read anything by Regina Scott before so that was a double treat!
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I really enjoyed this "what if" take off of Jane Austen's P&P. I applaud any author who attempts to bring us into the lives of Darcy and Elizabeth as there is much to brave when taking on Austen's characters. In saying this, the author did an excellent job staying true to Austen's characters and does an excellent job of keeping you turning pages to find out what happens next.
An enjoyable read for any Darcy and Elizabeth fan, wanting/needing a new adventure with these two.
I'll be looking for more books from this author!
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Wonderfully witty, intelligent and compassionate adaptation of the classic Pride & Prejudice. I just adored this book and told everyone, will be reading other books of the same author. I'd been looking for a smart, funny book that also had depth of characters and this is it. Yes, the names of the characters are hokey (Jaz, George, Mo, and these are women) but it's a wonderful update of the original. So good!
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I LOVE THIS BOOK! Anything with Jane Austen I just get sucked into the book and have trouble stopping to do anything else. Thank you to whoever made this digital!
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I would recommend this to readers who love pride and prejudice variations. I admit I was very worried about how this could end with Darcy and Elizabeth's golden ending but the surprises in the book made for a FANTASTIC ENDING.  Had some seriously great scenes in it!!
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I'm a fan of Abigail Reynolds- I always watch out for her latest book.  I love how she writes about my favorite Jane Austen couple- Darcy and Elizabeth. This time, Ms. Reynolds  takes the couple  to a whole new alternate "world". I  admit I was uneasy about  this book's plotline initially , but as usual, I got carried away by Ms Reynolds' wonderful writing and could not put the book down! I stayed up  till 4:30 in the morning! I read this on my Kindle, but as with all of Abigail Reynolds' books, I also got the paperback for my collection.
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I just really love this book. Abigail writes wonderful pride and prejudice variation stories, but this is my favorite. It just feels right.