Bite me, Mr. Darcy
We heard from Marta Acosta, the author of Happy Hour at Casa Dracula. Marta wrote that her book
mentions Pride & Prejudice in the first pages as the protagonist, Milagro De Los Santos, longs for “an Eliza Bennettish existence: a house filled with family and friends, the agreeable conversation of a kind and compassionate sister, and the promise of dances and engagements.”
This is a comedy of manners with a paranormal element. Also featured are other elements that Austen fans will recognize, such as the charming brother and sister who come to a country house and wreck havoc.
Reading the description of the book on Marta’s Web site, we were amused by this bit:
Then one night, at a book party for her pretentious ex-boyfriend, she meets an oddly attractive man. After she is bitten while kissing him, she falls ill and is squirreled away to his family’s estate to recover.
The idea of Mr. Darcy as a vampire delights us to no end, though we are not sure that the plot of the book exactly echoes that of P&P.
(And yes, we are keeping very weird hours again. Normalcy SHOULD return in a week or so. Yeah, right.)
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