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Darcys: The Ruling Passion
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Review for The Ruling Passion From
Austenprose.com
Best-selling author Linda Berdoll’s
Mr. Darcy Takes
A Wife and
Darcy &
Elizabeth have been hailed as “sexy,
hilarious, poignant” and “wild, bawdy and
utterly enjoyable (Booklist.)”
The Ruling Passion, her highly
anticipated sequel to the sequels, has finally
come to fruition... If your sensibilities are
offended by explicit, passionate love scenes
with Jane Austen’s original namesakes, this is
presumably NOT the book for you. However, those
who delight in reading about the Darcys beyond
Pride and
Prejudice, including all their
complexities, and intimacies, (in and around the
bedroom), and most particularly if you are a fan
of Berdoll’s previous works,
The Ruling
Passion is not to be missed! Yes,
hold on to your bonnets as Linda Berdoll has
quite done it again. Christina
Boyd
4.5 of 5 stars
Linda Berdoll says:
I have been asked many times what possessed me
to take on a sequel to one of the most beloved
novels in the English language with Mr.
Darcy Takes a Wife. The true reason was
that I was so swept away by the BBC/A&E
mini-series of Pride & Prejudice that I simply
could not bear to have the story end. In my
quest for more, I read and reread all of
Austen's other novels and several biographies.
But it was a book of her letters to her sister
Cassandra that really intrigued me. As I began
to read other nonfiction about the Regency era,
I was struck, not so much by what Jane Austen
told us, but what she did not. As remarkable a
writer as she was, Miss Austen wrote only of
what a respectable unmarried woman in Regency
society would be privy to. Her books end with
the wedding ceremony.
For many of us, that is not
the end, but the beginning of life's story.
Regrettably, in ending P&P on the cusp of what
undoubtedly would be a marriage of unrivaled
passion, she has left many of her readers with a
case of literary coitus interruptus.
I am not, nor do I pretend to
be, a Jane Austen expert. I began to write only
to satisfy my own longing to know what happened
to Darcy & Elizabeth. Many others have written
their own versions of the story. I wrote mine
with nothing if not a sense of fun. It seems
that readers of various Austen sequels fall into
two categories--those who yearn to know what
Darcy might have whispered into Lizzy's ear in
their nuptial chamber and those who fall into a
swoon at the notion of such heresy.
If you, Dear Reader, happen
to fall into the latter category, please heed
this caution before you read either of my
sequels: Hang onto your bonnet, you're in
for a bumpy ride.
Linda
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