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Title: Excessively Diverted: The Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Juliette Shapiro ISBN: 1-58939-264-7 Publisher: VirtualBookworm.com Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (30 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Excessively Messed Up
Comment: It started out well enough with a touch of wit and irony. Everything else went downhill from there.

The author mentioned at the end that she tried to stay faithful to Jane Austen's ending. I respect her for that, but some of the other ideas did not come together to make a good novel.

1. Lady Catherine accepts Mary Bennet as companion to Anne while still estranged with her nephew.
2. Mr. Collins loses Lady Catherine as his patroness. How the Lucases were able to support the whole Collins family and the rest of the Lucas brood I know not.
3. Mrs. Bennet proposes that Mrs. Darcy take in Lydia's child as her own and Lizzy agrees.
4. All these rushed weddings at the end - Col. Fitzwilliam married Maria Lucas. How is that possible when he couldn't make an offer to similarly fortune-less Lizzy?
5. Lydia and Lizzy go into labor almost at the same time.
6. Wickham actually shows up at Pemberley when Jane Austen mentioned that he was never welcomed there.
7. Wickham cries, Darcy forgives and Lizzy is in doubt.

The book is in need of a good editor, too. In an effort to write like Jane Austen the author ends up writing things like "the scandals that were germinating within the Bennet family." It's an easy read, but not a diverting one.

Rating: 1
Summary: Excessively poorly edited
Comment: I adored Pride and Prejudice, and tend to be fond of the various sequels. Alas, I found this sequel completely unreadable due to the truly terrible punctuation. Poor punctuation can be distracting, but this went well beyond that.

There are two possibilities for the ineexcusable punctuation in this book. The first is that neither the author nor her copy-editor (if any) is capable of using commas correctly, with some effort apparently being expended in using them as incorrectly and obtrusively as possible. The other is that the author was endeavoring to use commas as she felt Jane Austen used them, in which case her efforts were for naught, as Jane Austen would never have used commas so ungrammatically. Indeed, the latter would be both an insult to Jane Austen's writing and a poor reflection on the intelligence of the author of this journey into grammatical unacceptability.

If you want to learn how not to use commas, I recommend this book highly. If you are punctilious about comma usage, avoid this book, as you will not be able to enjoy it.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Read
Comment: I loved this book, and thought that it was very true to the feel of Jane Austen's novel. Other reviewers have made comments about poor grammar, all I can say is that I was so absorbed in the novel that I didn't even notice. The world of the Darcy's was enriched by this novel. If you love P&P the way I do read this book. I have read a few of the other sequels and so far this is the best one out there!

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