Two More Days at Netherfield

A Pride & Prejudice Variation (Unabridged)

By: Heather Moll

Narrated by: Katherine Anderson

How would spending a few extra days in each other’s company affect the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy?

While her sister Jane is ill at Netherfield, Elizabeth overhears the proud Mr Darcy express his admiration of her and her fine eyes. Not sure what to think of his praise after all of their previous disagreements (and more flattered than she wants to admit) Elizabeth responds by teasing him, forcing Darcy to reconsider his opinion of a woman who has truly bewitched him.

The ensuing day and weeks see confrontations and apologies and the beginnings of a friendship between Darcy and Elizabeth. But their warming acquaintance impacts the behavior of those around them inciting jealousy, anger and malicious falsehoods. Is the strength of their emotional connection enough to reunite them and put them back on the path to love?

©2020 Heather Moll (P)2020 Quills & Quartos Publishing

Great story!

This is an enjoyable variation. My only complaint is that the courtesan voice sounded like a school teacher to me. I’m not sure if that was a conscious choice or just me or whatever, but that was the only thing that took me out of the story. I also wasn’t prepared for it to get a little racey, but it was only a couple times. Not something I want to automatically pop up on my car stereo when I start my car—which of course happened at just the wrong moment, LOL! Oh well. It’s a good story and good narration. Highly recommend.

No my cup of tea

I read this a while back and even wrote some notes about it but neglected to note how many stars to give it. I'll think about it while I type.
I liked the first half of the book a lot more than the second. I felt like more interesting stuff happened. The last few hours of the audiobook were dotted with D&E sexual behavior which I don't care to read about. I hated the whole discussion about cortisans/mistresses and hated even more that Darcy even considered that as a way to forget about Elizabeth. I always think of Darcy as being in control and foreseeing consequences of his actions. The Darcy I believe in would never consider anyone but his wife. I felt like it was a long story and it took forever to get to the reconciliation. I think I have to conclude that I wanted to like this story much more than I actually did. I think my own personal tastes would make this about 2 stars but I'm giving it 3 because I think other people will like it better.

Two More Days at Netherfield

I had read this book already, but had forgotten some of the details. I enjoyed both the reading and the listening. I would recommend this to people who like Pride and Prejudice variations.

The bones of the story are the same, but Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship becomes friendly much earlier in the story - at Netherfield. Wickham is still Wickham and does Wickhamy things. All is well in the end, which is what I look for in a P&P variation!

I enjoyed Katherine Anderson's narration. I felt as though she enhanced the story with her performance. It is a long story, but the time flew by!

Lots of angst

Good 4-star narration by Katherine Anderson. I sometimes felt her intonation didn’t accurately reflect the emotion being described in the text. Still good though. I’d forgotten how angsty this book was when I first read the Kindle version.

Not what I was expecting

This is the first book I've read/listened to by Heather Moll. I'm unsure what I expected, maybe just filling in parts of the original Pride and Prejudice? But this was a rewrite with the same/similar ending. It had the feel of the original for the most part, so in that I enjoyed it. There was one place I was on edge agonizing over what Darcy was going to choose to do. I wanted to pause the audio and walk away because I didn't trust the author to do right. But she did. I definitely prefer the original work much more. I will look to see if this author has any completely original work of her own, and try it next time.

Katherine Anderson did a good job narrating. Her voice was perfect for the book.

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