While I generally love anything that gets me back into the world of Pride & Prejudice, this book felt almost like a betrayal of that place. Charlotte becomes seriously unlikeable, Mr. Darcy apparently forgets all the self improvements he made by the end of P&P, and the same of Mr. Bingley who’s back being cowed by Caroline. The book was also just too long, it took too much time retelling P&P, and then every point after that was stretched out. That said, it was nice to see Mary as the star and to imagine how the other Bennets ended up. 

Very annoying that Caroline got her wish in the end though. If Tom was a real friend he would have shown the note Caroline sent him to Ryder and at least tried to dissuade him from having anything more to do with her.  Ryder deserves a better ending than being stuck with Caroline, and she deserves worse