Took a spectacular fall onto concrete on July 4th. Skinned knee, twisted wrist and ankle, my left palm looks like I took a grater to it, and I skinned the tops of my feet! That's the one that amazes me. Yes, it was a total faceplant.
So, right. Book! Death Comes to Pemberley.
Tiny spoiler alert (sorry):
But I am upset that it isn't Wickham who bites it. I would have cared more about him.
For that matter I would care about all of them a lot more if they were the characters I love and not just a story of people with the same names as characters I love.
Elizabeth isn't witty. Darcy isn't scathing. Jane and Bingley have no personalities at all. Neither does Lydia, who we don't see much of and has lost all spark, made into this screaming, unreasonable, but still vain caricature. And Colonel Fitzwilliam, the almost other contender for Elizabeth in P&P, is now the creepy guy with no alibi. I smell red herring.
I feel I'm like those fans who are always upset that the movie version doesn't exactly fit the original. Or the remake is wrong. Or something. There had to be changes in the characters. Of course there had to be. But without the sparkling wit those characters had in P&P they don't work as characters. James does mystery, which is interesting and I am continuing to read for that story. But the characters have none of the intelligent spark.
Aaaaand, horror of horrors, there has been no fainting to keep count of! Though I guess that part does fit the original characters. Lizzie and Jane weren't the fainting sorts.
