I started out loving this book, but by the third story, I was disappointed and stopped reading. The first story was a retelling of A Christmas Carol, starring Darcy in the Scrooge role. I found it funny and charming. The second story had all the main P&P players gathered for Christmas at the Bingley's. It was a sweet story, very much in the style of Jane. The third story was raunchy and ridiculous---a disgrace to Jane Austen and these beloved characters. How disappointing, as I was hoping to keep this in my personal collection. ( )

An interesting read. Three short stories by three different authors. Each story was unique in there own right about Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy over the years at Christmas. ( )

Un libro inspirado en la obra de Orgullo y Prejuicio de Jane Austen, enfocado en las navidades de la Regencia. Agrupa tres historias: Mr Darcy's Christmas Carol de Carolyn Eberhart, Christmas Present de Amanda Grange y A Darcy Christmas de Sharon Lathan.
Tres historias con distintos enfoques y estilos. Luego de la publicación de este libro, cada autor publicó su historia por separado en formato e-book, supongo, con el objetivo de dar opción a los lectores de comprar la historia que sea de su preferencia. Así que cuando reseñe colocaré la portada de cada historia. Valoraré cada historia por separado y la valoración general del libro será el promedio de cada novela.

En cuanto a la portada, es una preciosa imagen, con una acertada simbología de cada elemento puesto en ella como es la mujer que aparte de darle a la composición verticalidad, también puede representar el espíritu de la navidad; esos claros toques rojos focalizan la vista para captar el interés, a su vez representan estas fechas.
Con una tipografía que denota la época de la Regencia. Parece una pintura hecha al oléo por la textura que muestra.

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A Darcy Christmas consists of a Christmas themed trio of novellas that are all involving Jane Austin’s characters from Pride and Prejudice. The first story, Mr. Darcy’s Christmas Carol, just about had me tossing the book across the room, written by Carolyn Eberhart, this was a take-off on the Dickens classic. There was nothing clever about this at all, the author seemed to simply insert the names of the main characters from Pride and Prejudice into the story by Dickens which resulted in an extremely silly story. This should never have been placed first in the book, as it was very off-putting and almost led me to abandon the read.

The second story was much stronger, entitled The Christmas Present by Amanda Grange, it tells the story of a very pregnant Elizabeth and her husband going to visit Jane and Charles Bingley for Christmas. Jane herself, has just had a baby. Many familiar characters show up in this story, from Elizabeth and Jane’s parents to Lady Catherine DeBourgh. This one, I think came the closest to capturing the essence of a Jane Austen novel.

My personal favorite was the third entry, A Darcy Christmas, although this didn’t seem to capture the voice of Jane Austen as well as the previous one, it was much more Christmas-y and that was the reason I was reading the book in the first place, to get a large helping of Christmas. The Christmas Present was a series of chapters and each chapter dealt with a different Christmas through the years at Pemberley.

I wouldn’t recommend this book to Austen purists, as I don’t believe these stories are strong enough to stand up to any comparison to the original, but if you want a story that captures a little Christmas, at least two of the three work quite well. ( )

A Darcy Christmas is an anthology featuring three novellas by two Austen veterans and one newcomer: Mr. Darcy’s Christmas Carol by Carolyn Eberhart, Christmas Present by Amanda Grange, and A Darcy Christmas by Sharon Lathan. While I’m thrilled to find some holiday tales playing around in Austen’s sandbox, this collection is so drenched in saccharine that I nearly went into a diabetic coma while reading it. Also, the predictability and blandness of each story left me not finishing any but one of the three (Christmas Present). Nothing here left me with the spirit of Christmas.

Mr. Darcy’s Christmas Carol by Carolyn Eberhart really used too much of Dickens if you asked me, leaving the whole story with an unoriginal taste in my mouth. Darcy is of course Scrooge, who after his high and mighty proposal to Elizabeth is visited by three spirits to show him the misplay of his snobbish ways, thereby leading him to propose again, sincerely. This was definitely the wrong story to place as the book‘s lead-in.

Christmas Present by Amanda Grange was a stronger piece which should have lead the anthology. Here we have a very pregnant Elizabeth and Darcy traveling to the Bingley’s for Christmas in order to visit Jane’s newborn son. Of course, Elizabeth ends up going into labor and all ends completely satisfactory. This was a very short story. The other two are each 100 pages or more, where this one was only a little over 60.

A Darcy Christmas by Sharon Lathan continues the trend of “happily-ever-after” with a reminiscing story where Lizzy and Darcy think back on their life together: their initial infatuation, their honeymoon, the births of their five children, ad nauseam.

Overall, if syrupy sap is your thing this time of year you’ll no doubt devour these stories, but I was looking for something a little more … well more. Each story seemed to be centered around one of the things that annoys me most about Christmas: over consumption. I would have loved to see a story where Darcy and Elizabeth spend Christmas with a local not-well-to-do family, or they have financial troubles but come to realize that it doesn’t matter because they are together with family all around them (who needs money right). There’s nothing new here, and I’m beginning to wonder why writers seem to be afraid to push the envelope a little, and do something other than “and-they-lived-happily-ever-after-with-tons-of-kiddies-and-loads-of-money-never-having-one-worry-in-the-world. the-end.”

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