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indiana_j ([personal profile] indiana_j) wrote2012-02-19 12:01 am
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Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James

4 in the 50 by 2013: Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Right, I have no idea why I downloaded this - this is, essentially, a murder mystery that takes place in the Jane Austin world of Pride and Prejudice after Elizabeth and Darcy have married.  I'm not sure what possessed me considering that while I love the movies, I really could never read the Austin books.  But, hey, murder mystery, why not?

Oh god, I really should have left it alone.  Which is really sad because the start was really good!  Well-paced, good grasp on characters, and the mystery was really gripping.

And then, it became less so.  I ended up skipping whole chapters out of sheer boredom (look, Darcy and Elizabeth are married and should probably be shown in the same room for more than a handful of pages), things kept being repeated and the mystery just stopped being entertaining.  I just stopped caring about anything right after I got half-way through the book.

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