Bennet Incantation

A Pride and Prejudice Variation

De: Deborah Kauer

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Longbourn is entailed, but a special incantation was created in the 1600s by an accused witch to repay the Bennet family patriarch for not being one of her accusers. Future Bennet generations are promised at least one son to inherit, making sure the entail does not allow Longbourn into the hands of another family.

Every Bennet patriarch is blessed with a son until Thomas Bennet. Something went wrong with the incantation, and he is blessed with a second daughter. Elizabeth Eleanor Bennet may not be the expected son, but she is special. How will her specialness affect her and her family? And what of the promised son?

Will Elizabeth's special gift cause problems between her and the man from Derbyshire who finds himself falling in love with her?

Disappointed

Either the virtual narrator was really bad at reading or there were a lot of mistakes in the book that needed editing. Virtual narration is never the best but it accentuated the mistakes. I didn't see complaints about it in the few reviews I read so perhaps the text has been improved and the audio needs to be redone. I don't know.

I liked the idea for the story and despite the virtual narration had high hopes for the story itself. Unfortunately, that didn't work out for me. I was irritated by repetition of phrases. I mean, did all the women ALWAYS giggle into their hand every time they felt mirth? And if so, did the reader really need to know that? I feel like that was stolen from the 2005 movie. Is that in the book? I don't recall. I don't know how many times that was repeated in this book though. Between things like that, and all the errors I began to think that perhaps it wasn't just the narration that was done by AI. It felt like the book itself was written by AI.

I thought the idea for the book was indeed unique and a fun twist but too many other things meant that it didn't live up to my expectation and I was disappointed by what could have been a really good story.

Also, my most hated nickname for Darcy is Will. Darcy is too suave to be a Will. I know this is a matter of personal preference but every time I see or hear Will it makes me roll my eyes.