Daily Archives: February 16, 2017

Cute modern day interpretation of Pride and Prejudice

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Iiiireader

Unleashing Mr. Darcy

By: The Hallmark Channel

Rating: 4 of 5

“Unleashing Mr. Darcy” is one of the latest remakes of Jane Austen’s iconic novel, “Pride and Prejudice”. I’m quite a fan of all of Ms. Austen’s works with “Pride and Prejudice” being one of my favorites. I’ve read many books and seen both movie and television mini-series interpretations and always look forward to seeing a new take on it.

In “Unleashing Mr. Darcy”, the role of Elizabeth Bennet is transformed into Elizabeth Scott (played by Cindy Busby) and Fitzwilliam Darcy becomes Donovan Darcy (played by Ryan Paevey). In the story, recently unemployed (unfairly fired) Elizabeth finds temporary employment as a dog handler and is also able to show her own King Charles Spaniel at a dog show where Darcy is judging the competition.

The two meet in less than stellar circumstances and are left with less than wonderful views of one another. In that sense, the movie follows the book very well. Darcy certainly appears full of pride and Elizabeth is quick to form opinions based on very little face.

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Interesting and fast moving Florida Keys diving mystery

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Iiiireader

Death by Sunken Treasure (A Hayden Kent Mystery) (Volume 2)

By: Kait Carson

Rating: 5 of 5

deathbysunkentreasureThis is the second book in the Hayden Kent Mysteries by Kait Carson. It is the first book I have read by this author. I often read books out of order in series to see how well they read stand-alone.

I had some difficulties in the first chapter or two as it seemed to continue from the first book without much explanation as to who the characters were and how they interacted. By around the third or fourth chapter, I had caught up and could enjoy the story. While I think the story can be read stand-alone, I recommend reading the series in order so you can understand the back story on the characters which becomes fairly important by the end of the book.

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