Pride and Prejudice

Book/Story: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Book Cover: ⭐⭐

POV: Third Person Tropes: Enemies to lovers Spice: None Series/Standalone: Standalone Part of a series: No Safe or Dark: Safe

PSA: JANE AUSTEN IS THE QUEEN OF TROPES!

I first read this book back in high school, when I was around sixteen or seventeen. This was not a required reading for class; I read it for fun. I remember enjoying it, but I couldn't remember why. I also didn't remember much of the story since it's been many years since I've been a teenager. To put it in perspective, I graduated high school in 2007. 



 I must have liked this book a lot since I decided to re-read it. However, I may have done so anyway since Jane Austen is a favorite of mine and holds a special place in my heart.  

This book is broken up into three parts and while I overall loved the novel in its entirety I had different feelings about each part. 

Part I: Set up the story beautifully. It was fun and engaging. You get to see the start of relationships and it's exciting. 

Part II: Still fun but less engaging. We hit a lull here. We are caught in the middle of the excitement of new relationships and as they develop things slow down a bit. 

Part III: Back to being engaging as we start to see relationships pick up. We start to see the end game for most of the couples. It is thought provoking and sweet. You really discover the true personalities of each character and how they feel about one another. A great wrap up. 

As a teenager I was definitely team Darcy and that still stands. Fitzwilliam Darcy is just the dreamiest. And I can confidently say that if any man said half the things Darcy said to Elizabeth Bennett, I would fold like a piece of notebook paper.

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

Fitzwilliam Darcy – LOVED:

Elizabeth Bennett – LOVED:

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

Mr. Bennett – LOVED:

Mrs. Bennett – DISLIKED:

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of”

Jane Bennett – LOVED:

Mary Bennett – INDIFFERENT:

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Catherine “Kitty” Bennett – LIKED:

Lydia Bennett- DISLIKED:

“Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”

Charles Bingley – LIKED:

Caroline Bingley – HATED:

“Angry people are not always wise.”

George Wickham – DISLIKED:

William Collins – DISLIKED:

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

Lady Catherine de Bourgh – HATED:

Georgiana Darcy – INDIFFERNT:

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

Charlotte Lucas – INDIFFERENT:

Colonel Fitzwilliam- LIKED:

“We do not suffer by accident.”

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”

TLDR: READ THIS CLASSIC! YOU WON'T BE SORRY!