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In Want of a Wife?
He's the last man in the world she would ever marry! To Lizzy Sharp, businessman Louis Jumeau is a real-life Mr Darcy: insufferably proud, infuriatingly prejudiced...and impossibly good-looking! Louis knows exactly what gold-digging families like the Sharps are after - his money. But the universally acknowledged truth is that this billionaire needs a wife. Independent Lizzy might not seem the perfect candidate, but her curves are proving powerfully tempting. And the arrogant and well-practised Louis is sure all it will take to wed - and bed! - her is a little seductive persuasion...The Powerful and the Pure When Beauty tames the brooding Beast...
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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Cathy Williams
1,326 books200 followersCathy Williams, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a British author who has written romance novels for Mills & Boon since 1990. She lives in Chiswick, London, with her three daughters and continues to craft engaging, heartfelt love stories.
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March 16, 2011
Recognize the title?
It's a phrase from the famous first line of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This is suppose to be a riff on P&P for the M&B/Harlequins whores like moi but the author brought nothing original nor witty to the table. Instead, it's a weird, disjointed, tired hodge-podge that has the hero saying whoppers like "Little wonder that your mother’s given up on your chances of marriage." to the heroine.
The heroine is only 23 years old.
The hero is a hotel tycoon who arrives at the beginning of the novel to save his best bud from the clutches of the heroine's sister and gold-digging family. If this sounds familiar, it's basically the plot of the Bollywood film Bride & Prejudice.
The bk borrowed here. The bk borrowed there. I could not continue since this worked neither as a good category romance nor an adaption of P&P to my mind.
Grade: F/DNF
It's a phrase from the famous first line of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This is suppose to be a riff on P&P for the M&B/Harlequins whores like moi but the author brought nothing original nor witty to the table. Instead, it's a weird, disjointed, tired hodge-podge that has the hero saying whoppers like "Little wonder that your mother’s given up on your chances of marriage." to the heroine.
The heroine is only 23 years old.
The hero is a hotel tycoon who arrives at the beginning of the novel to save his best bud from the clutches of the heroine's sister and gold-digging family. If this sounds familiar, it's basically the plot of the Bollywood film Bride & Prejudice.
The bk borrowed here. The bk borrowed there. I could not continue since this worked neither as a good category romance nor an adaption of P&P to my mind.
Grade: F/DNF
April 5, 2019
Es una adaptación de Orgullo y Prejuicio. Con dos cambios significativos: Un Darcy más hablador y atrevido (? Y con una Lydia menos detestable y más sensata (aunque casarse en las Vegas no lo sea)
August 15, 2011
Listen, it was more of a 3.5, but I felt it deserved better than the 1.6 stars that it currently has here on goodreads. I think Cathy did a very good job of making the story work in our time. One thing I was a little curious about was how Lizzy in this adaptation was the one to fall in love first. Louis was more or less our typical HP/MB hero in that he didn't realize he loved her until he'd pretty much lost her. I wonder if the author was trying to make it all more like what we're used to in HP relationships, then again, we have books with smitten heroes suffering from unrequited love.
I think Cathy did a good job though, I found it more palatable than The Forbidden Wife, the one based on Jane Eyre, and it also didn't hurt to picture our true Lizzy and Mr. Darcy in any of the 3 sexy scenes.
I think Cathy did a good job though, I found it more palatable than The Forbidden Wife, the one based on Jane Eyre, and it also didn't hurt to picture our true Lizzy and Mr. Darcy in any of the 3 sexy scenes.
January 4, 2018
Na Alegria e na Tristeza - Harlequin Paixão 245 - portuguese edition - paperback
A retelling of a story by Jane Austen that was cute!
A retelling of a story by Jane Austen that was cute!
April 17, 2011
I loved the Mills & Boon Modern retelling of Pride & prejudiced. Louis the Mr Darcy of this story is everything Mr Darcy should be and swoon I want him to cook me a meal not because it would taste good but because it would be hot watching him make it.I loved Lizzy from the begining of the book and her spirit and love for her other four sisters. This is my second retelling of Pride & Prejudiced and I have watched both films aswell and still I haven't read the classic which I must really do as I love love the films and the two retellings.
April 26, 2011
A modern version of Pride and Prejudice, not original.
March 12, 2020
Not the best modern version of Pride and Prejudice to hit the stands. This tries too hard to do justice to the P&P that it doesn't sufficiently let the wonderfully original Lizzy from the book who was forward thinking for her times resemble this version who was constrained into 1800s version of forward thinking instead of thinking forward beyond 21st century.
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May 22, 2023Pride and Prejudice anyone? I couldn't shake the feeling when I started reading this book that I had read it before. Turns out I had in the form of a novel called Pride and Prejudice. A serious rip- off if there ever was one. I didn't mind when Helen Fielding did it with Bridget Jones because it was really a modern day version of P and P and she made no hint to disguise it even calling one of her characters Darcy.
However, this just bugged me. Don't get me wrong it's an enjoyable read but I am disappointed. I hate cliched novels and I hate even more novels that are direct rip offs from the clasics with no direct change to the plot or no attempt to. Yes, it was modernised but to a hint. There were still the five sisters and the mother who wants to marry them off Rich. There was the sister that ran off with the cad and the bitchy sister. Sadly, she couldn't go far enough to even change the name of the main female character and kept her Lizzie. That bugged me most of all. It doesn't help Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books.
Come on authors, try and be a little original.
However, this just bugged me. Don't get me wrong it's an enjoyable read but I am disappointed. I hate cliched novels and I hate even more novels that are direct rip offs from the clasics with no direct change to the plot or no attempt to. Yes, it was modernised but to a hint. There were still the five sisters and the mother who wants to marry them off Rich. There was the sister that ran off with the cad and the bitchy sister. Sadly, she couldn't go far enough to even change the name of the main female character and kept her Lizzie. That bugged me most of all. It doesn't help Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books.
Come on authors, try and be a little original.
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June 14, 2021To Lizzy Sharp, businessman Louis Jumeau is a reallife Mr. Darcy: insufferably proud, infuriatingly prejudiced...and impossibly goodlooking!
Louis knows exactly what golddigging families like the Sharps are after—his money. But the universally acknowledged truth is that this billionaire needs a wife.
Independent Lizzy might not seem the perfect candidate, but her curves are proving powerfully tempting. And the arrogant and wellpracticed Louis is sure all it will take to wed—and bed—her is a little seductive persuasion...
Louis knows exactly what golddigging families like the Sharps are after—his money. But the universally acknowledged truth is that this billionaire needs a wife.
Independent Lizzy might not seem the perfect candidate, but her curves are proving powerfully tempting. And the arrogant and wellpracticed Louis is sure all it will take to wed—and bed—her is a little seductive persuasion...
October 15, 2011
a modern-day Pride and Prejudice in an HP! some of the other HP authors have been doing their own re-writes of classics and did not succeed in capturing my attention, but this book actually works for me. the hero is a pain, but he is loyal to his friends, and the heroine is a sharp-tongued teacher who does not want to fall for this man who thinks her family is out to entrap any unsuspecting male with money. i will be re-reading this one!
June 3, 2013
This book was an excellent book!!! Anyone who took time to read the synopsis on the back would have known from the beginning the author was doing her version of an modern day Pride and Prejudice. And not criticize a book for seeming that way. I won't read a book without the synopsis first grabbing my attention, apparently there are some who will and than try to make an author sound awful for what the publisher was up front about from the beginning.
January 9, 2014
I had hoped this would be a moderately good adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but it was a kind of boring copycat. The plot pretty much mirrored P&P, but in a less memorable way. I also didn't really buy that there would be a modern family so desperate to marry off their five daughters. This wasn't very imaginative or very exciting, and was overall a disappointment.
December 28, 2012
I never got the title of the book because yes Louis wants a wife eventually he is not searching for one. This book had a feel of pride and prejudice even with her name , Lizzy. I felt the love but something was just missing.
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December 24, 2014Miniseries: The Powerful and the Pure
July 20, 2013
Another modern Pride and Prejudice retelling. Inoffensive, but you're better off with Hank Green's Lizzie Bennet Diaries.
September 1, 2014
This book is very Pride and Prejudice esque, but the love scenes are clunky and the hero and heroine don't have much of a spark.
A reasonably enjoyable effort though.
A reasonably enjoyable effort though.
August 26, 2014
Até gosto de uma história de amor simples mas a Lizzy é uma chata sempre a pôr em causa tudo o que o Louis diz ou faz.
January 8, 2015
Pride and Prejudice, but with sex and motorcycles. I still don't know why this was on my nook to begin with, but it filled a couple hours.
January 2, 2016
It was okay. It didn't impress me very much i'm afraid.
July 10, 2016
Tipo Orgullo y prejuicio... Obviamente me va a gustar
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December 24, 2014Miniseries: The Powerful and the Pure
February 23, 2016
its a copy of Pride and prejudice ... but a good one
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