{"id":10150,"date":"2024-04-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:12:19","slug":"review-her-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/review-her-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Review – Her Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Her Grace: A Pride & Prejudice Vagary<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Shana Granderson A Lady<\/p>\n\n\n

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Genres:<\/strong> Regency Historical Romance, Regency Romances
Release Date:<\/strong> December 26, 2023
Pages:<\/strong> 406 pages
Purchase from:<\/strong> Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Rating:<\/b> \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/p>

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\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 – Did not finish
\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 – Hated it
\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606 – Disliked it
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 – Okay
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 – Liked it
\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 – Loved it
Read the full explanation<\/a> of my book rating system.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

***Warning: There are parts of this book which allude to domestic abuse, although there is not any graphic depiction of said violence<\/em><\/strong>.***<\/strong>

This a full length novel of about 115,000 words.

This is not a P&P variation, rather is is a vagary which features the characters from that magnificent work by the one and only Jane Austen.

Rather than protect their daughter like any good parent should, first Fanny and then Thomas Bennet push their 16 year old daughter Elizabeth into a marriage with a much older man who happens to be a duke.

Fanny is seduced by the fact he is a duke, even if he is not interested in Jane, something she cannot believe at first, and his willingness to dower her remaining four daughters. For Bennet when the Duke offers to break the entail on Longbourn, after a certain condition is met, his half-hearted opposition to the match dissipates.

At first, Elizabeth refuses to marry the man, and is adamant even if dragged to the church she will never recite her vows. However, after a private meeting with the vile duke, she agrees. The question is why would she change her mind so drastically.

In that meeting, she demands certain clauses to be added to the marriage settlement. What are they and how do they change outcomes some had previously expected?

We explore why the Duke is looking for a wife outside of the Ton<\/em> in little market towns instead. We quickly see just how depraved the man is and why he is reviled by all in polite society. Is he the only villain in the tale?

Both Lady Anne and Robert Darcy are alive in this novel. Even with them both being alive, their son manages to suffer from boot-in-mouth syndrome on more than one occasion, including when he meets Lizzy for the first time, who is still married to the Duke at that point. No it is not at an assembly and there is not that<\/em> insult delivered.

Including the much loved Biggs and Johns, there are some of my non-canon characters featured in this story, as well as some new ones.

It is not an easy path for Lizzy to travel, but she is strong and intelligent, not to mention extremely protective of those she loves. We follow her to find out if she gets the HEA we all want for her. If she does, will it be with Fitzwilliam Darcy?
Join me to have these and many other questions answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

**Potential spoiler in this paragraph**<\/strong> I want to start with the most important item. I don’t consider this a spoiler, but some might. No likable characters are harmed in any way in this story. If I had known that when I started reading, this would have been a much more relaxed book. Because I didn’t know that up front, I felt like I was doing the reading version of watching a horror movie through my fingers. I kept checking the percentage of the book remaining and trying to mentally calculate how much time Elizabeth had left before her guaranteed safety ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that out of the way, I truly enjoyed Her Grace<\/em>. Unlike many other Shana Granderson books I’ve read, this one was blessedly free of errors. However, like<\/em> her other books, all of the “villain” characters received their just desserts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Duke of Hertfordshire, Ms. Granderson has managed to create an absolutely vilely repugnant creature. I was rooting for his downfall almost from the first page. It’s a shame it took so long for it to happen, but, I applaud Ms. Granderson for coming up with such a perfect way to handle him.<\/p>\n\n\n