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Accomplished

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First off, thank you so much to the publisher for sending me a digital copy of Accomplished! This book, while lovely, ended up not being exactly what I thought it would be. Though I enjoyed the author's writing style I wasn't a fan of the plot and so am not able to provide the best review possible for this book. Unfortunately, I made it about 2/3 of the way through and ended up DNFing the book.

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Thank you to the publisher for allowing me advance access to this title. I really enjoyed reading this story and look forward to reading more from this author. As a reader, I am really motivated by character driven stories and I found myself quickly becoming immersed in these characters’ lives. Full review to come.

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I love Pride and Prejudice retellings or reimagining. Accomplished is fun and told from Georgie Darcy’s POV. She attends Pemberley Academy where she is in marching band, and after an incident with Wickham Foster the prior year, Georgie should have been expelled. The books pacing was fantastic and for a YA book it didn’t read young. I love the friendships, and relationships in this book, they are written with such realism. I found this book to be charming.
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, Amanda Quain, and NetGalley for the readers copy of this book.

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Such a good take on Georgiana Darcy's character! Also Charles Bingley as a frat boy makes so much sense.

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
This book was an interesting and fun YA Jane Austen retelling. Adding Georgiana Darcy as the main character was an intriguing change to the original story, and differentiated this book in a way that means that you don't have to have read P&P to understand and connect with this book as well. 5/5 stars from me!

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This was a cute little pride and prejudice retelling and look forward to more from this author in the future. Georgiana Darcy the black sheep of the perfect family. After finding out her boyfriend Wickham was using her dorm room to sell drugs getting Georgie in trouble. While her name saved her from being expelled from the school it didn’t stop all the people getting mad at her for turning on Wickham. Georgie is in the marching band playing trombone and trying to get through the school year. Enters Avery the drum major of her dreams and a all around nice guy. Georgie and Avery bond throughout the book until a secret is kept will this adorable relationship last the betrayal and secrets. I really thought this was a cute book I loved seeing Georgina story for a pride and prejudice retelling. My only issue was it felt a little surface level and I think this is a me thing with YA in general. If you normally like ya books you may love this one it was cute and witty and it’s what I needed. I would like to thank the publishers and Netgalley for a chance to read this book for an honest review.

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Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for giving me free access to the advanced copy of this book to read.

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I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Honestly, I don't think I'm the target audience for this. I liked some things in the book, but overall it had me feeling pretty "meh" or worse about it. The beginning was whiny and it was hard to find anything to like about Georgie due to her whining the entire beginning about how no one likes her, while also criticizing the people around her.
I did like Avery and Emily, and the ending, but I felt like the characters of Pride and Prejudice just really didn't fit well in this story and this probably would definitely have been a more fun read if we didn't have to try to shoehorn in the Bennett sisters and Wickham.
I'd recommend this not to fans of Pride and Prejudice, but to people who enjoy boarding school stories and YA, because if you're like me and came here looking for a fun P&P alternate universe, you'll probably leave this book as dissatisfied as I did.

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3.5 Stars — I found the story a bit messy with a lot of plot threads going on, especially in the beginning. Once I got to the middle of the story, I felt the story and pacing flows better. I ultimately ended up enjoying this.

As a protagonist, I liked Georgie. I think the author captured Georgiana’s openness and naiveness. I felt a lot of sympathy for Georgie and how lost and lonely she was. Someone older she trusted took advantage of her by preying on her insecurities, grief, loneliness, and then she was left to deal with her classmates’ judgement and disdain. The fact that she lives at a boarding school just makes it 1000x worse. Her only safe space is in hidden corners at the library. I felt so bad for her. I could totally see why she was so desperate to do something - anything - to show people that she wasn’t a screw up. Except that she goes about trying to accomplish this in all the wrong ways.

Because this is written in Georgie’s voice, there’s this odd vibe/tone for the first half of the book. I later realized the weird vibe I was feeling was because Georgie is so completely oblivious to her privilege and how others really see the “oh-so-important” Darcy family name. And since I was in her head, I thought a lot of the decisions she was making in the beginning were not realistic, but they are! For Georgie, they make sense because spending money is not even an afterthought for her. We start to see a shift as Georgie starts to come out of her own bubble and interact with others more. Granted, her big lesson about wealth and white privilege were shoehorned into the story with no subtlety towards the end of the book. I wanted more on-page conversations, especially between Avery and Georgie.

As a Pride and Prejudice retelling, I thought the author did a great job. Fitz in here is broody, stuffy, and principled. We don’t get nearly enough scenes with Lizzie to make her feel like Austen’s Lizzie, but the glimpses of Fitz/Lizzie interaction we see felt familiar.

The best character, and one I wished we got to know more of, was Avery. He felt like the only real, down-to-earth person in Lizzie’s life. I was worried that she would rebound with Avery but I can assure you that the author develops the connection between them in a really awesome way.

I definitely enjoyed the last third of book the most. I feel like the first half was emotionally heavy and slow but it starts to pick up by the middle. Overall, I enjoyed this. There are a lot of things going on so story feels messy at times, but the core of the story resonated with me. By the last page, I was filled with such pride and warm fuzzies for Georgie.

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Last year Georgie Darcy got caught up in a drug-dealing scandal because of that blasted Wickham. This year, she's going to show everyone at Pemberly (her fancy boarding school), including her brother and her ex-boyfriend, that last year was a fluke. She's going to reclaim her legacy and prove once and for all that she has what it takes to be a proper Darcy. I'd always thought it likely that Georgie had a crush on Wickham that he'd likely known about and exploited and clearly Amanda Quain does too!

I loved the re-imagined snippets of Elizabeth and Darcy's romance that were teased throughout the story but this book is for anyone that ever wanted to peak behind the curtain at Pemberly and get to know Georgiana as more than just Fitzwilliam's little sister. She's a clear foil to her brother, warm and welcoming to Lizzie, and she has her own torrid history with Wickham. This story plays with all of the details Austen gives us and spins them into a complex, relatable character that you'll want to root for.

Thank you to NetGalley, Amanda Quain, St. Martin's Press, and Wednesday Books for the e-arc.

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I an unable to review this title, as it was archived before I had a chance to download and read it. This feedback is only to stop this title from adversely affecting my netgalley feedback rate. If in the future I have the opportunity to read this title, I will post a proper review here.

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3.5 stars I was expecting a fun, light read. This was a bit depressing; I actually cried through a good portion of it. Georgie had such low self esteem and was so desperate and lonely. The tone did shift in the latter half of the story. The author did a great job at getting the reader to feel all of Georgie’s emotions. And thankfully by the end, Georgie was pulling her life together.

I felt that the characters rang true to their classic counterparts. There was good character growth. I did enjoy the second half more than the first. I think the YA crowd will really like this one.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books for this digital arc in exchange for my honest review which is not affiliated with any brand.

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I really tried with this one, but I got bored very quickly. The characters weren't likeable at all and the rich kid vibes weren't working for me. I love Pride & Prejudice and the idea of a Georgiana retelling is great, but the execution was very disappointing.

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I love P&P and I love P&P retellings! So to get a book for Georgiana is fantastic!!!

I love that Georgie is still the shy young lady, Fitz & Lizzy are also here, and Wickham is his normal douchy self.

While I enjoyed the book, I wasn't blown away by it. I think it was a book that wasn't for me at the time I read it. I'll give it a solid 3 stars.

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Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an egalley in exchange for an honest review

Inspired by the characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this is a contemporary YA tale centered on Georgiana Darcy( sister of Fitzwilliam Darcy). Pemberley Academy is still reeling from all the drama when Georgie got caught in the arms of drug dealing Wickham Foster last spring. As a result, older brother, Fitz has become super vigilant in his little sister's life. Georgie just wishes everyone could move on and stop treating her like a social pariah. Amanda Quain provides readers with plenty of romance and bad boy banter.

What I liked:
(1) Giving a very likeable Austen secondary character( Georgie Darcy) the spotlight. Quain's Georgie was an extremely likeable teen protagonist who has her own desires and aspirations. This is not a P& P retelling.
(2) Charles Bingley as a frat boy- HILARIOUS! He NEEDS a book!

What I didn't like:
(1) Boarding school romances are not one of my favorite types and I admit they were cute but Georgie and her love interest didn't grip me.
(2) Aside from the fact they were characters from Pride and Prejudice, the rest of the novel was pretty much like any other rom-com YA book.

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I'm a big fan of Jane Austen and was excited for a new retelling, unfortunately this fell a little flat for me.

The beginning of the book started off a bit slow, with many flashbacks to Georgie & Wickham in the previous year , which became too much. I felt that the bullying and self-loathing we got from Georgie was over the top and took me out of the story. Wickham became almost cartoon-like with his villain arc.

I did love the relationship between Georgie and her brother and appreciated their ending. Georgie and Avery's relationship was cute. I also loved the callouts to Tumblr and fandom culture.

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Thank you Netgalley for the e-ARC of this title. I enjoyed reading this title. Would recommend for my library.

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I really wanted to enjoy this because Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book of all time, but I couldn’t get over the fact that I couldn’t stand Georgiana Darcy. She’s such a lovely character in the original book and in this she’s just a brat. I couldn’t finish it. Also, it was really annoying hearing him called Fitz And hearing his name three times every sentence

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Really enjoyed this fun, modern take on the classic Pride and Prejudice. All the original characters turned sideways a bit were fun and fit well within the context of this world. (Yeah, Wickham still sucks hard.) And the addition of Avery as a friend and love interest for Georgie was sweet.

The drama and angst. This is definitely not a story for just any Austen fan. You've got to be able to put up with the teenage nonsense. But if you can, it's fun.

Georgie's self-hatred (due to a previous relationship and scandal with Wickham) was a bit much, though. Like it was sometimes hard to keep feeling sorry for her.

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*Arc provided by Netgalley and Wednesday Books in exchange for an honest review.*

By far my favorite modern take on Georgiana Darcy. Struggling to live up to the Darcy name, and dealing with the fallout of her relationship with Wickham is making Georgiana's time at school downright miserable. The names and relationships are the same as the characters many know, but it's definitely something someone unfamiliar with the original would be able to read and not feel lost. The perfect mix of teenage angst and out of touch wealth.

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