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Total Want of Propriety Volumes 1 & 2<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Cherith Boardman<\/p>\n\n\n

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Genres:<\/strong> Pride and Prejudice, Regency, Romance
Release Date:<\/strong> November 1 & 15, 2021
Pages:<\/strong> 710 & 724
Purchase from:<\/strong> Amazon\u00a0Volume 1<\/a> | Amazon Volume 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Total Want of Propriety, Volume 1:<\/strong> At the first light of dawn the morning after the dance at Netherfield, a carriage speeds north as Fitzwilliam Darcy flees the temptation wrought by Miss Elizabeth Bennet\u2019s pert opinions and fine eyes. His heart yearns for the intelligent beauty, but he knows his duty to Pemberley, and his family, and cannot risk exposing his beloved sister to the total want of propriety evidenced by the rest of the Bennet family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A month later \u2013 and now resolved to follow his heart \u2013 Darcy hastens towards Bath after Darcy learns of Elizabeth\u2019s expulsion from her family for refusing to marry Longbourn\u2019s heir, Mr Collins.
Soon confronted with the truth of his own family\u2019s wanton lack of propriety \u2013 and Elizabeth\u2019s dislike of him \u2013 Darcy must do all he can to protect his sister from her own folly, while hoping to earn Elizabeth\u2019s forgiveness for his arrogant presumptions\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And ultimately win her heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Total Want of Propriety, Volume 2: <\/strong>In the aftermath of their tumultuous early acquaintance, the newly married Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy spent their months in Portugal building a flourishing relationship built on respect and the deepest love as they learned to support each other through the myriad trials besetting them \u2013 especially the peevish and bitter Georgiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning home to England, the Darcys reunite with their loved ones and take up the reins of their duties at Pemberley and elsewhere, whilst finding their place within Society. When suddenly faced with disastrous opposition from the Fitzwilliam family, Darcy and Elizabeth must present a united front before London\u2019s Upper Ten Thousand. Can they endure the unforeseen attacks, unparalleled scrutiny, and unwarranted gossip as they defend their marriage and love against the onslaught?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battle lines have split Society, and the war has begun. Who will support them? Who will betray them? And might Fitzwilliam\u2019s and Elizabeth\u2019s growing communion provide the means of Georgianna\u2019s Reclamation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please Note: Total Want of Propriety is one story spread across two volumes, Darcy’s Reformation comes first, and Georgiana’s Reclamation comes last. Both volumes are necessary to complete the story. Both volumes are clean, novel-length, non-canon P&P romances, and feature British and historical spellings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warning: Total Want of Propriety: Darcy’s Reformation features an instance of fade-to-black (non-sexual) violence. Physical, emotional, and mental recovery from the trauma of past physical and verbal abuse are themes throughout both volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Review<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

OK, there’s a lot to say about this set. To start, I bought this book by accident. I wish the 1-click button at least had a “confirm” option. But, since I owned it, and Amazon makes it incredibly difficult to “return” digital content, I figured I may as well read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t expecting Total Want of Propriety<\/em> (TWoP<\/em>) to be so different than Pride and Prejudice. Don’t expect to recognize anything from Jane Austen’s classic behind character names and some relationships. If a typical Pride and Prejudice variation is a “re-write”, this is a new creation. Imagine both Jane Austen and Cherith Boardman received a sheet with some character names and relationships and were told to write a story based in the Regency era. You would, of course, get two completely different stories with a slight overlap because they started with the same character names. That’s what this is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual for me, I’ll start with the negatives. Because both the pros and cons for this set are fairly long, I’m going to use bullets to try to avoid writing a novel as a review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n