5.5 Amazing Stars!!!
I’m in love with the Austen brothers! As we all know there are many subgenres in Romance and one of my absolute favorites is the Romantic Comedy. Not everyone can do it well, unfortunately, and Rom-Com is where so many authors try too hard and end up with a mess on their hands. Luckily for us this is not the case with The Bachelors! Everything about it is sheer perfection. Taking her cues from one of classical literature’s most beloved books, “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, Ms. Carter has given it a modern age spin, and it is going on my list of Top Ten for this year! With so many things to love about it I just want to mention my favorite one: Mr. Darcy Austen! Ladies, you’re in for a treat.
The Austen family has owned Austen’s Book Stores, a nationwide chain, for five generations. The current owners are Darcy, the eldest, followed by Bingham, or Bing for short, and Wickham “Wick”, the youngest at twenty-four. All three Austen brothers are handsome, single and, unfortunately, soon to be unemployed. They might have to sell the failing company. Now, with the boom in eBooks and audio books, it’s in dire straits, and Wick desperately wants to save it. He convinces Darcy to give him six months, to find a way to do so, before they have to sell it. Wick has to find someone with deep pockets who can invest in it. The more he thinks about it, the clearer the solution is: He needs to find a rich bride. With his playboy and bad boy reputation, that might be little problem. But, as fate will have it, there’s a charity ball being hosted by the Bennet sisters, all three sisters single and very wealthy. He just needs one of them to fall madly in love with him in less than six months. Or, maybe he can talk one of his brothers into it. Darcy, who’s the straight-as-an-arrow, no-nonsense brother, might be hard to get on board his plan. And Bing, being the nose to the grindstone, nerdy one, will be just as hard to convince. Wick’s not too concerned with the schematics of it, he’s sure it’s a good, solid plan.
Eliza, Jane and Lydia are the Bennet sisters. Known as being “richer than the Royal family” the beautiful, single sisters all have very different temperments. “Lize”, the eldest, has been the head of The Bennet Group, a multibillion dollar company, since her father died less than a year ago. The savvy businesswoman is headstrong, practical and very stubborn. Jane, the middle one, is the gentle one; she’s very generous and is proud of her charity work, something that was near and dear to their late mother. Lydia, at twenty-one and the youngest, has always been thoughtless and selfish. As the bad girl in high society, she’s always in the tabloids, equal parts due to gossip and her high fashion sense. As with all sibling dynamics, there’s a little rivalry, and it’s usually Lydia against her two sisters. Elize and Jane are unusually close to each other and seem to agree and understand each other best.
So, when Lydia does the unexpected at the Charity Ball, with Wick on her coattails, the Austen brothers and Bennet sisters join forces, to shake some sense into them. And forces are not the only things joined **wink, wink**
“I knew it would feel like that.”
“Like what?”
“Like I was tasting a thousand of our lives on our lips.”
As the couples pair off there’s one couple that gets along as well as a fly and vinegar. Or rather not very well at all. I felt like I wanted a bucket of popcorn, to munch on, every time they interacted together.
“The ice princess has been hiding her talents beneath her frosty outer-layer. Why, Miss Eliza, if you ever lose your place at The Bennet Group you’ll always get work as a stand-up comedienne. I’d pay good money to see what other material you have.”
“You couldn’t afford it.”
This book had me reading nonstop, I practically read in one sitting. I loved the witty, laugh out loud dialogue and I had a huge grin on my face while reading. Any book that has my clutching my Kindle to my chest, at the end, is a great one!
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Incandescent.
'He knew her.His heart knew her.His body craved her, and his mind called for her.He didn’t have it bad. He had it good.'I wanted to start writing this review the MOMENT I finished reading The Bachelors by E.S. Carter, except I knew I should wait. I needed to wait to get my fangirl under control, so I could be as coherent and persuasive as possible.Because, you guys, you must read this book.A twist on Jane Austen’s classic, Pride and Prejudice, The Bachelors is simply wonderful. An instant classic, IMHO. It’s smart and witty, and takes the refined feel of Austen and melds it perfectly with modern sensibilities, delightful humor and cutting commentary.There is so, so much to recommend this book, and not a single page failed completely and utterly charm me. The way this author changed and twisted and molded the foundational story—the classic love of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy—into something new yet familiar, unique but comforting is just . . .. . . it’s awe-worthy.For me, it’s hard to say exactly what I loved most. Maybe the biting banter of Eliza and Darcy. Or the wicked games of Lydia and Wick. But probably—almost certainly—the joyous connection shared by Jane and Bing. Oh my god, the feels.The F. E. E. L. S. I’m one corset away from swooning and simpering and making love to you all. ← That might be an ill-remembered quote from some BBC version of Austen or another, but whatever. You know what I mean, right?If you don’t, then there’s a remedy. Get The Bachelors. Whether you love Austen or not—or are even completely indifferent—there is something so incandescent about this book, it won’t matter. Because, as I’ve been struggling in vain to relate, this book is a must read.“It’s an exquisite ache, a lovely sort of déjà vu. We spoke, and I was overwhelmed by the sensation that we’d been here before.”~ SIX STARS ~
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