Accomplished

What I did enjoy was the concept: how the familiar characters and places were revealed and the nice backdrop that was built for a modern retelling. I'm sure there is a demographic of young readers that would enjoy this, but I just didn't resonate with this book. I don't think YA romances is a genre I can enjoy, even if it's a retelling of one of my favorites.

I loved Georgiana in P&P, but in ACCOMPLISHED she's all consumed with navel gazing, self martyrdom, and low self esteem. She's completely oblivious to her privilege, judgmental thoughts, and complete self absorption that she can't even remember simple details about her “friends.” She blames all her problems on this situation with Wickham, rather than realizing that a huge part of the reason she's a social outcast is her own behavior.

At the end I was left with a sense of whiplash since it's not until the last few chapters when Georgiana finally has her character arc and begins the process of realizing and changing all the behaviors I previously mentioned. Her growth is at warp speed and appears to come overnight, which is always a frustrating thing for me as a reader.

I also couldn't stand the depiction of Fitz in this either. I didn't see any parallels between this modern sibling relationship with what I saw in P&P. The characters don't match the personalities I have in mind of the original story. Overall, this story just didn't do much for me and which is disappointing because I really wanted to like it.

***Thank you to Macmillan Audio and Wednesday Books for providing me with the audiobook for free via NetGalley for an unbiased review.