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Georgiana Darcy gets the Pride & Prejudice retelling she deserves in Accomplished, a sparkling contemporary YA featuring a healthy dose of marching band romance, endless banter, and Charles Bingley as a ripped frat boy. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Georgiana Darcy should have been expelled after The Incident with Wickham Foster last year – at least if you ask any of her Pemberley Academy classmates. She may have escaped expulsion because of her family name, but she didn’t escape the disappointment of her big brother Fitz, the scorn of the entire school, or, it turns out, Wickham’s influence. But she’s back for her junior year, and she needs to prove to everyone—Fitz, Wickham, her former friends, and maybe even herself—that she’s more than just an embarrassment to the family name. How hard can it be to become the Perfect Darcy? All she has to do is: – Rebuild her reputation with the marching band (even if it kills her) – Forget about Wickham and his lies (no matter how tempting they still are), and – Distract Fitz Darcy—helicopter-sibling extraordinaire—by getting him to fall in love with his classmate, Lizzie Bennet (this one might be difficult…) Sure, it’s a complicated plan, but so is being a Darcy. With the help of her fellow bandmate, Avery, matchmaking ideas lifted straight from her favorite fanfics, and a whole lot of pancakes, Georgie is going to see every one of her plans through. But when the weight of being the Perfect Darcy comes crashing down, Georgie will have to find her own way before she loses everything permanently—including the one guy who sees her for who she really is.
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Fantastic. Amazing. I looooooved this book and it made my heart pterodactyl screech with joy. Did I want to throw it across the room because of he-who-shall-not-be-named (*cough* Wickham)? Absolutely! Part of the experience!
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Copy through Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for my honest opinion.
This was completely adorable! I’m a Pride and Prejudice addict, so seeing a modern day retelling, but with Georgiana as the main character, I knew I had to read it. And it was all I could have asked for.
We meet Georgina after the instance with Wickham, which here was selling drugs from her dorm room at the very fancy boarding school they attended, and she’s trying to get her life back together.
Georgiana is now an outcast, after getting Wickham expelled from school, apparently he was the best trumpet player in their band, and supplied all the drugs, obviously, see prior instance and she is feeling very overwhelmed. In an attempt to prove to her brother that she can handle it on her own, she changes all of her classes to AP and starts matchmaking him with the girl (Lizzie) he met in a study group at his local college.
It of course doesn’t go to plan, she starts struggling with school and her classmates and she feels like she is doing nothing but being a disappointment. When Wickham shows back up, everything is thrown for a loop.
This was a fun, quick, cute read!