Mr. Darcy Forever

This Austen Addicts Book takes place three years after Sarah and Mia went to Devon to spend a week at the cottage used in the 1995 filming of Sense and Sensibility. Sarah and Mia meet Alex, who's staying at another cottage down the road, when he and Mia collide while jogging. Mia immediately falls for him since she thinks with her heart, while Sarah is hesitant to be around him since she thinks with her head. In the end, he is wooing both sisters while sleeping with one and marrying the other. Naturally the bond between sisters is broken, and neither sister realizes one has a baby and the other has gotten a divorce. Fast forward three years. Both sisters are in Bath for the Jane Austen Festival. Here we meet some of the characters in future books: Dame Pamela Harcourt, Mrs. Soames, Mrs. Doris Norris, Dan and Robyn Harcourt carrying their five week old daughter, Cassie. The sisters meet the night of the dance, and after Mia's anger has subsided, she agrees to meet Sarah. They reconcile and want to be in each other's life again. And both find love with the right man in Bath. Good story.

The two main settings in this novel are dreamy places for any Austen fan: first Barton Cottage, or at least the house in Devon used in 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the one to which Marianne and Elinor have to move after their father's death, and then Bath in the days of the Jane Austen Festival. Bath is the place where Catherine Morland met Henry Tilney and it was where Captain Wentworth declared his love to Anne Elliot (p. 61) Sarah is the Elinor-type and as a much elder sister in a family with no parents she has to take care of Mia, Marianne's alter ego in this modern tale. Sarah has the conservatism of Elinor, the prudishness of Fanny Price and suffer from OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) while Mia has the naivety of Catherine Morland, the recklessness of Marianne Dashwood and dreams of being an actress. Could two sisters be more different? Sarah's birthday gift for Mia is a week to spend together, the two of them, at Barton Cottage but her plan will be ruined by an unexpected presence: Alec is the most handsome, fascinating man the two sisters have ever met. Mia loses her head and starts flirting openly with him, Alec seems more interested in Sarah though ... This will be the beginning of the end for Sarah and Mia's close relationship, they have always been more like best friends than sisters. But they can't share the same man, can they? Three years later and a great deal of life after the two sisters are both in Bath for The Jane Austen Festival, none of them knowing of the other's presence. They haven't spoken nor seen each other since their week in Devon. Bath will offer them new chances and new acquaintances ( a Brandon-type and an Edward-Ferrars-type, of course! ) and, especially, an opportunity to meet again. What about the Mr Darcy in the title? Read this lovely romp to the end and he will be there in his wet shirt for Mia, Sarah and all of you. What I especially like in Victoria Connelly's Austen-inspired trilogy is her humor. Her prose is witty and her narration characterized by a very light touch which makes you want to turn the page and never put the book down. You are there - at least I was - giggling all the time. And daydreaming of course! She copes with ordinary life, heroines/heroes with their ordinary misadventures but she succeeds in making them rather extraordinary, really special. Another element I definitely appreciate is her ability to find the Austenesque in present day ordinariness. Bravo, Ms Connelly! These three modern day romances are really sunshine on a rainy days. I've loved the previous two A Weekend with Mr. Darcy Dreaming of Mr. Darcy , this latest one, Mr Darcy Forever, nonetheless.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel. I love the way it takes us to Bath, and the descriptions of the Jane Austen festival. It made me want to go back to Bath again and this time attend the festival! I enjoyed the comparisons between Sarah and Mia and Elenor and Marianne. I also enjoyed the love the sisters shared for all things Jane Austen. A fun overall read which I enjoyed immensely and would recommend :)

After coming off of a very disappointing read with Dreaming of Mr. Darcy, I will give props that it was better...but not much. I just don't get it. There's 2 guys, 2 sisters...and love, THE END. Come on. There's really no romance to speak of, there's no build up to any sort of attraction, its all very flat. Trying to figure out what happened between the 2 sisters to find out why they haven't talked in 3 years is the most interesting part of the book and well, that all gets sorted out in a paragraph in the end. Poor Lloyd and Gabe. Again, I was left feeling that I wanted my money back for the book. Sorry.

Don't know what to write about this book. I have not read it yet. But am sure when I have time to read it, I will enjoy it.

Sisters Sarah and Mia haven't spoken to each other since what should have been a marvellous holiday in Devon resulted in no contact between them for three years. They are both Jane Austen fans and both decide after a gap of several years to visit the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. Both hope and fear that they will bump into each other. The reader is in the dark about the cause of their falling out and this is gradually revealed through flashbacks. I thought Sarah was particularly interesting because she suffers from Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and I thought this was dealt with particularly well in the story. The difficulties she has with day to day life and the way OCD affects those close to her was very well done. I found Mia very irritating at first because she seems so selfish and self centred but I did gradually revise my opinion of her. I thought both the sisters and the other characters were well drawn and believable. The atmosphere of Bath and the enthusiasm for everything really comes over in this book and readers of the author's A Weekend with Mr Darcy will recognise some of the minor characters from that book. This book is the third in a trilogy about Austen addicts, of which the first one is A Weekend with Mr Darcy and the second The Perfect Hero but each book can be read as a standalone story. I love this author's writing and her sheer joie de vivre even when she is dealing with serious subjects make her books a real pleasure to read. I recommend them to anyone who wants something a bit different from the average women's fiction.

Cercavo da tempo qualche libro in lingua abbastanza da comprensibile da leggere e capire....inoltre sono una grande appassionata dei libri di Jane Austen.. questo ha risposto in pieno ai miei desideri... mi è piaciuto così tanto che ne ho subito acquistati altri

Dies ist keine weitere Fortsetzung von Stolz und Vorurteil,. Hier haben wir eine liebenswerte Urlaubsgeschichte zweier Schwestern, die begeisterte Leser und "Anhänger" von Jane Austen sind. Sie haben ein Ferienhaus gemietet in dem eine TV Produktion eines Austen Romanes gemacht wurde. Und sie schwelgen in Erinnerungen. Jetzt fehlt nur noch ein Mr. Darcy. Eine der Schwestern leidet unter einer zwanghaften Persönlichkeitsstörung, Obsessiv-Kompulsives Syndrom. Diese Krankheit wird sehr einfühlsam behandelt. Ja und dann gibt es tatsächlich einen Mr. Darcy, leider, leider ist das aber ein George Wickham.

This is a very enjoyable light read - it was engaging and charming and witty, and I wanted to get to the end as soon as I could whilst also not wanting the story to end! The only negative I have is the Kindle edition had a very poor proof reader - how someone can confuse "to" and "two", "where" and "were" along with missing out many words and misspelling others is pretty unforgiveable. It really irritated me and it does interrupt the flow of the writing. Worth a read though!

Book No. 3 in the Austen Addicts series is a really heart-tugging novel in the series. This is the tale of two sisters one of whom commits one of the cardinal sins between siblings of falling in love with her sister's "boyfriend" and acting on it. We follow their journey of redemption back to understanding. At first I felt the younger sister was a spoilt brat who had lost her way but the reveal in her story towards the end of the book makes her actions so much more understandable. For the older sister, I was in complete sympathy. Despite her difficulties, she tried to do her best in all situations and only made one mistake but it was a devastating mistake. Who can say they haven't done something similar? This is a romance novel with a serious twist to it which I can whole-heartedly recommend.