Nefarious: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
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Nefarious: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
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Narrated by:
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Harry Frost
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By:
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Nicole Clarkston
About this listen
He hates everything about her.
She despises him even more.
So why is his heart so determined to belong to her?
Once trapped by marriage to a woman he loathed, Fitzwilliam Darcy is finally free again. Resentful, bewildered, and angry, he is eager to begin his life over - preferably with a woman who is the exact opposite of his wife.
He never imagined a short stay in Hertfordshire would bring him face to face with his worst nightmare; a woman similar in face, form, and name. He certainly never expected her to be so impossible to ignore.
Torn between what he believes he wants and what his heart cannot live without, his dignity begins to unravel. Will his desperation to escape his past drive a wedge into his closest friendship and destroy any hope of a future?
Will Miss Elizabeth Bennet prove to be as nefarious as his wife? Or, will the last woman in the world be his only chance at happiness?
©2019 Nicole Clarkston (P)2019 Nicole Clarkstonfantastic story
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A truly excellent story and performance
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Parts of this story were difficult for me to read and listen to because it put my favourite fictional hero in a very dark light indeed. At the beginning of the story—which is entirely from Darcy's POV—Darcy is in a very bad headspace, and as unfortunate as this is for our hero, it certainly made for some very entertaining interactions with our favourite JA heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. Indeed, Darcy fairly loathes Lizzy, and he feels totally justified in this opinion, but despite all his instincts that urge him to despise her, he cannot help but find himself being brought under her spell. Indeed, he suspects she has bewitched him.
Things go from bad to worse for Darcy throughout the length of this very long work and my heart broke for him on many an occasion, especially after he had seen the light and (mostly) left behind his black Darcy persona. His problems come in the form of some very nasty—evil is not too strong a word— individuals who are a blight on Darcy's life and eventually threaten the happiness he could finally have with Lizzy.
As I said earlier, if Darcy thought his life was cursed at the beginning of this book, it most definitely was towards the end. This was the part I had difficulty listening to even though I more or less remembered what was coming because I have read the book previously. I won't spoil the plot for others, but be aware that you will need great fortitude to read this section. If you managed to read 'These Dreams' without calling for the smelling salts, you will be able to weather this.
I have to mention one of Darcy's dark thoughts because I found it hilarious: Jane and Lizzy have to ask Mr Bingley for the use of his carriage because 'the Bennet carriage cannot be spared for some reason and Darcy suspects the problem is a broken mother!
I happily award five stars for this beautifully written, high angst story. Harry Frosts narration was generally good, but when he was speaking Elizabeth’s dialogue, he talked so very fast, and I found it very off putting. That is the only complaint and I awarded the narrator 4 1/2 stars.
The cursed life of Fitzwilliam Darcy!
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Complicated subplot
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