Pentapod reviewed Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Review of 'Eligible' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Torn between 2 and 3 stars for this modernised Pride and Prejudice reselling. It's very readable, like a trashy romance novel, but only partially succeeds in being true to the original. Mr. Bennett is very well done, and Charlotte and Mr Collins are ok, but Lizzie and Jane didn't quite work for me. Darcy isn't terrible but Bingley comes off as a pretty shallow flake. And the Wickham character is just Lizzie's ex, never had anything to do with Georgina Darcy, just got kicked out of university for bad and possibly racist behaviour. Enjoyable enough fluff reading but didn't really capture the characters or the spirit of the original.