TITLE: Seducing Mr. DarcyAUTHOR: Gwyn Cready
STARTED: October 30, 2008
FINISHED: November 10, 2008
PAGES: 374
GENRE: Romance
FIRST SENTENCE: "Did you say Mr. Darcy's pants?"
SUMMARY: [From barnesandnoble.com] Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style. She prefers novels with hot sex on the bathroom sink to the mannerly, high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to "Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book." Somehow, on the way to a sizzling sink-top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip lands right in the middle of Regency England -- and dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact, that she discovers a side of him even Jane Austen couldn't have imagined.
Waking from her massage, Flip is on top of the world and ready for her upcoming book club -- that is, until she notices a new scene in which Darcy and spunky heroine Lizzy Bennet are arguing over...Flip Allison? Her rapturous liaison with Darcy has had disastrous consequences for Austen's characters -- not to mention millions of Pride and Prejudice fans! Flip has twenty-four hours to put the story back on course, and Magnus Knightley, a sexy but imperious scholar whose brooding good looks and infuriating arrogance are decidedly Darcy-like, is the only one who can help. The only problem is, Flip can't keep her hands off him, either.
THOUGHTS: Great idea. Poor execution. Cready tried to take on too much with this one. There were about 8 plot lines floating around. She should have trimmed to two and flushed those out to get a better, more emotionally connective story. Also, there was no chemistry between the leads. At all.
RATING: 4/10 [An "okay" book]
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