Mr. Darcy's Perfect Match: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

Love can suck sometimes – right? For something that was created to bring us such great joy and warm fuzzy feelings, the word can also bring heartbreak, depression, and even create dysfunction within one’s inner circle of loved ones.

Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Kelly Miller’s Mr. Darcy’s Perfect Match, begins to realize that. It all starts after his one true love, Elizabeth Bennet, says no when he asks for her hand in marriage.

Heartbroken, depressed and needing to recharge his feelings, Mr. Darcy goes home.

Miller, as with her other writings, shines as a storyteller for sure. She proves to be a venerable writer with her gentle, yet bold use of creative expression and character development.

She shows an intimacy with her story and characters that makes the book personable and one of those reads that you keep on your nightstand for repetitive reading.

Mr. Darcy’s character has been taken many ways by several different authors … many of whom tried to replicate the original … but the original can never be truly copied. I mean – Pride and Prejudice was just that.

But in this book, as in her other I most recently read, Miller does something the other Pride and Prejudice fan writers can’t or haven’t – she makes the story, the characters and even the descriptive scenes her own.

Who would have thought that Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet wouldn’t be together? Who would have thought that Darcy’s family wouldn’t approve of Elizabeth.

Each page of this book grabs your attention, and pulls the readers into the scene so much so – it is almost as if the reader is more than just a fly on the wall, but an actual character – a silent observer.

I blame Miller and her talent for that – wink.