Lost Souls

A Pride & Prejudice Variation

By: Martin Hunnicutt

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In this Pride & Prejudice variation, the story begins in 1808 when Mr. Darcy does not arrive at Ramsgate until two days after Georgiana’s elopement with George Wickham. The servants sell their story to the newspapers, the couple vanish, and when the gossip columns run rampant with the news, Darcy’s relatives demand that Darcy disown his sister. When Wickham learns he cannot gain his wife’s dowry until she is thirty years, he deserts Georgiana and Darcy takes her back into their London home. With society turned against them, Darcy takes his sister to Pemberley but she dies during the winter. In the spring (1809), Darcy returns to London but he is unrecognizable with a full beard and long hair. The ever-faithful Charles Bingley, invites Darcy to use his new appearance as a disguise to hide and grieve in Hertfordshire. To the surprise of everyone in Meryton, Charles returns from London with a new secretary, one ‘Malcom McDuff’, a wild looking Scots with a full beard, long hair, and an eye patch over one eye. While there, McDuff meets Miss Elizabeth Bennet and they share many interesting conversations. But as the day for the wedding of Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley approaches, McDuff vanishes. There is scandal enough in Hertfordshire that summer when Lydia Bennet elopes with George Wickham from Brighton and the Bennet family is shocked by Lydia’s resolution to her problem. The next summer (1810), Elizabeth travels to Hunsford to aid Mrs. Collins with the impending birth of her first child. Upon arrival she is introduced to Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy from Derbyshire who is on business in Kent.There is something familiar about this Mr. Darcy, and Elizabeth Bennet sets her mind to discovering his secret.

Great read

In this book we meet Mr Darcy as a grieving brother. She had eloped and married mr Wickham. But he was denied her money for many years and abandoned her. He goes under disguise and hides under a fictive name. He meets Elizabeth through Mr Bingley. Great Jaff

highly questionable quality

At this point I'm listening to Mr. Hunnicutt's books to verify for myself if they're all badly written. And so far, yes, yes they are.

I've come to the conclusion that A) either MH is a terrible author, or B) all of these books are written by AI, in which case they should be labeled as such.

In this book we get more detail of Darcy's shave than we do of any of the inner workings of the characters, which is sad really, because the premise was a good one.

I cannot find any information online that verifies the existence of MH as a real-life human. Audible and Amazon, do better!

Intriguing, but in the end flat and artificial.

Interesting plot idea but sadly that is the only positive.
AI narrator is dreadfully flat with weird pauses and intonations, where Darcy has higher voice than Elizabeth, however as for AI it wasn't so bad.
Then about story, I agree with previous reviews, it's badly written. Dialogues are flat, story telling flawed with many plot's holes, character development is backward, well characters building is non existing, so it's not surprising. Everything is exaggerated and shallow, every emotion fells flat and historonic at the same time, with completely infantilised incentives. About half the time characters seems completely dumb and forgetful, as if events from chapter before never happened, in another half they are completely unreasonable and their behavior borders on bipolar personality disorder. Interactions, lack of logic, lack of consequence and integrity, lack of proper emotional reactions, or even any emotions, all off that was completely infuriating to listen/read, bad characters are grotesquely bad, good characters suffer in silence, as is thier due, so every other character acts blind, ignoring obvious injustice, cruelty and harm, so protagonists could continue being a helpless victim. Then we need to add many inacqurieties, some historical but also some were inaccurate in context of the story and the original JA novel.