More than anything, this book suffered from poor writing and a lack of understanding of the source material.

Honestly, I’m often all for authors taking classic lit or fairy tales as inspiration and turning into something new to fit their own ideas. But if you’re going to straight up say a character is “getting the retelling they deserve”, said character should actually share in some qualities as the original character other than the name being the same.

Georgiana in the original novel was a soft and sweet gentle-hearted girl. Georgie in this book is an obnoxious, whiny brat with absolutely no character growth.

There was so much manipulation and miscommunication all throughout the book that I started feeling like I needed roll my eyes every 20 pages or so.

Thank you NetGalley, Amaanda Quain, and St. Martin's Press for the e-ARC.

This just… really let me down.

I love P&P retellings whether they be modern, from a different point of view, or with a twist. Heck, I recently read Becoming Mary Bennet which referenced Pride and Prejudice but was very clearly not that at all, and I adored it! I say all this to make it clear that I am not one of those people who just isn’t into retellings. I love them. Which is why this was just a let down.

Georgiana is basically a blank slate compared to everyone else in Pride and Prejudice. She is mentioned very little, but what we know of her is that she is sweet, a little downtrodden, and talented in the arts. I think the downtrodden and love of the arts came across very well in Quain’s retelling, and I like how she translated these issues to the modern teen equivalents (oh band drama, how I do not miss you). I also think that her fears of everyone hating her are extremely accurate to the teenage experience, and I applaud her addressing that anxiety.

However, that’s about where my enjoyment of this book ends.

Georgiana is so unlikable in this. Wildly unlikable. I, too, would probably avoid her were I in the unfortunate position to be back in high school. She flaunts her wealth and in a bid to get people to like her and she has very minimal character development. I don’t have much more to say about her because there isn’t that much to say. Misguided teen makes poor choices in a bid to prove herself. Standard.

Darcy is also extremely unlikable. Rather than be the overprotective brother you might remember from the novel, he is the controlling brother who shows no sympathy towards Georgiana after she’s been through an emotionally abusive relationship culminating in her loss of all social connections. Not to mention he straight up abandonded her before it all went down.

Listen - there is no one way to interpret characters. That’s why discussing stories and characters is so fun! However, there is something extremely jarring about having characters you are very familiar with come off as completely different people. It’s like if Cinderella spit in her step-family’s food every morning. Deserved? Sure! But it’s just so out of line with what we know of that character that it gives pause just reading it, right?

However however, despite my personal disconnect with this book, I think it’s important to consider this book from the point of view its intended audience, which I am decidedly not. I do work with them though, and I am not so old that I have totally replaced my horrifically awkward stint as a juvenile with glittery, shiny memories, so I think I can kind of sort of put myself back into that position and honestly? I’d have loved this book as a teen. It has it all! Scandal, family and peers that just don’t get you, a broken heart, and at least one dead parent? Sign fifteen year old me up! From that perspective, this book is an absolute slapper.

However however however, I can’t give it a glowing review even with that in mind because I don’t feel that it really shows development or coping mechanism that the reader might be able to apply to themselves.
So to combine the fact that I think teens would like this and the fact that I didn’t, I’m gonna do a solid 3/5.

I loved the idea of a P&P retelling by Georgiana set in modern day, but I was a bit let down by this one. First, there wasn't nearly as much of the other P&P characters as I would have liked. But I'm willing to mostly let that go, this was exploring Georgiana who I would love to know more about.

The real reason I struggled with this is there are a lot of cringe-y moments in the first half of the novel. Things where Georgie has the best intentions, but it just went horribly wrong. I find things like that hard to read/watch. This will probably not bother others nearly as much. And I will say, the second half of the book got much better in this regard - yay character growth!

A new take on the world of pride and prejudice. We follow Georgie Darcy, the little sister of Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

It takes a moment to get into this book because when you get into a retelling of a well known novel you have certain expectations of how the story line is supposed to go. In the end though, I enjoyed this book. It had tastes of the familiar characters we all know while focusing on a lesser seen character and showing that you don’t need to change for people to love you. Reading Georgie’s character arc was wonderful. Showing that the best person that you can be is yourself. Avery was a wonderful addition to this world that we know so well and was able to show Georgie that you don’t need to change yourself for people to accept you, regardless of who your family is.

Georgiana Darcy has had a bad year and she is back for another year at Perberley. She understandably feels unable tp live upto her brother stellar reputation of being great at school just like most of her Darcy ancestors. She feels their eyes judging her every move.

Once Fitz left the school and she moved onto her 10th year of school, she fell into the company of Wickham Foster and things got much worse and her relation with Fitz frayed.
Georgie is trying to make amends so that her brother of old returns to her instead of treating her like a punishment he has to fulfill.

In the new year, all that she did the prior year comes back to haunt her. No one except Avery talks to her at first.
She decides on a plan of action to improve her image and also get her brother off her back by setting him up with Elizabeth.

However, Wickham is back too and he sets a bet with her on her failing in her plans.

What I liked: the genuine feeling of letting someone go who isn't good for you.
The making of plans and the failing of plans.
Her inner monologues. Georgie and Fitz's relation.

What could have been: a couple of chapters with Fitz's viewpoint in it.
Better resolution for Georgie and Avery. It seemed like an afterthought.

All in all. It was a fair retelling of Georgiana's story as told in Pride and Prejudice.

I want to thank NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley/St. Martin’s Press for sending me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

As someone who is trying to get into reading more classics when I saw that A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice was available to read I knew that I must and I could safely say that I was not disappointed. Accomplished is an adorable story that I believe many readers will absolutely enjoy.

Georgiana Darcy aka Georgie often struggles with her own insecurities. She is the black sheep of her family, often feeling like a burden to her brother Fitz who has stepped into a father role for Georgie. Georgie will do anything to make it right with Fitz including getting him off her back so he can be happy for once.

When Georgie finds herself returning back to Pemberley Academy after getting in some trouble as caused by Wickham Foster she finds herself to be the schools social pariah and just wanted to make things right, however Wickham will not make it easy for her by allowing that to happen. Will Georgie be able to get Wickham out of her life once and for all successfully without her brother finding out and upsetting him or will she be forced back into play Wickham’s underhanded games? You must read to find out.

Overall I truly enjoyed the story. I think Georgie is a character you truly root for. I know I rooted for her. I definitely recommend those readers who are fans of Jane Austen to read this story.

2.5 ⭐️ this book had so much potential to be an amazing story, but it just felt a little short. I did really like the plot, I thought it was very fun and entertaining, but my only problem was the characters. Georgie could have had it so much character development throughout the book, but instead other people just changed for her. I did like how her relationship with her brother changed, but her relationship with others in the book especially Avery were just not well written. it seemed like Avery was doing everything he can to be an amazing friend to Georgie, but Georgie couldn’t just look outside her own point of view to see what she was doing wrong. is pride and prejudice retelling would be so amazing if the characters were a little more developed!!

I have been really enjoying all the YA retelling of Jane Austen’s works that I have been reading lately and most of them are regency/Victorian au’s. I really liked the modern take of this retelling with Pemberley being the academy that they go to and that this book is focused on a side character we don’t get a lot of interaction with in the original novel Georgiana Darcy. So this starts in Georgie’s junior year at Pemberley academy after the incident with Wickham Foster that if she was anyone else but a Darcy would have gotten her expelled. She has been on lockdown all summer and Fitz her big brother transferred from Caltech to New York to watch over her better. So now she has to prove to everyone that she is more than just an embarrassment to the family name and try to fix her reputation with her peers as well as her marching band classmates that she pretty much ditched while involved with Wickham. Also she needs to distract Fitz from being so overprotective by throwing Lizzie Bennet at him with the help of his frat bro Charles Bingley. This was such a fun au to read and I loved how much growth Georgie had throughout the book and how she realized her privilege and that they need to talk more about what is bothering them and work through their grief that they just suppressed after their father died and Fitz turned into a surrogate father instead of her brother. I can’t wait to see the next book and if that will be about her senior year.

Thanks to Wednesday Books and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book in e-book form. All opinions in this review are my own.

As more of a Sense and Sensibility fan, I can't tell you the similarities between this and Pride And Prejudice but I enjoyed the book.

You get Georgiana Darcy in a very privileged high school. She has something happen her sophomore year that seemed to turn the whole school against her. She's determined to make things right this year. Though even the safest place she ever felt at this school, being as part of the marching band, she's feeling ostracized.

I liked her friendship+ with Avery. I knew the reasons he stayed her friend from a mile away, way before she realized it.

I just love the band stuff. I wasn't in the band but was in Color Guard that does stuff with the band so it's very nostalgic for me in those scenes!

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Georgie Darcy is your typical filthy rich nerdy high school boarding student (mostly). She reads and writes fanfic for her favorite period drama, plays trombone in the school marching band, and is having a bit of a disaster love life. Following the scandal of her last year from the discovery of underground drug ring operating out of her dorm room by her super popular ex-boyfriend Wickham and now suffering under the watchful eye of her older brother Fitzwilliam, Georgie is socially isolated and at a loss for just how to connect to her peers. When Wickham returns to her life and challenges her to live up to the Darcy name, Georgie cannot help but step up the challenge along the way. But will she be able to get the Darcy grades, get her perfect but overbearing brother Fitz off her back, and become the school darling, or will her privilege and shortsightedness reel her right back into Wickham's arms?

I'll be honest, it took me a really long time to get into this book. The beginning setup to me felt rather over the top and the initial deal struck up with Wickham felt riddled with plot holes that could Easily have been solved before there was every truly a problem to begin with. But! I pushed on, and ended up flying through the second half of the book.

While the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy is a romantic Classic, I actually really enjoyed entering this retelling from Georgie's angle. The small glimpses we did end up having of Liz and Fitz was refreshing and fun, and I always found myself looking forward to them. I loved being able to see what Georgina would have gotten up to in a modern setting especially because in the usual retellings she's the one relegated to side character and she has Such a tragic and compelling story to tell. The adaption to a boarding school setting served the book well.

While elements of the story did feel predictable within the genre of YA romance (and outside of the typical retelling elements of the story), I had a lot of fun with this book. Once I stopped reading so hard and just let Quain play in the world, the second half flew by. I particularly loved the inclusions of Charles Bingley, who stole every single scene he was in, and the original character Avery. While I could see the romance plot coming and playing out a MILE away, it was still sweet and fun and funky and enjoyable. A cute, fun, and quick read, if a bit cheesy.

I saw Pride and Prejudice retelling, and I clicked add to cart. This book was utter perfection. I have no complaints. I am hoping to use parts of this one in a compare and contrast unit along with the original P and P with my seniors.

I went in to this as a skeptic, being scarred from so many authors who habe tried and failed to capture my heart with a retelling of P&P.. This novel was super cute, and I loved it. I loved the story from the perspective of Gorgianne.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC!

Confession: I’ve never read pride and prejudice before. In fact, I haven’t read a single book by Jane Austen. The only thing I knew going into this retelling is that Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth would end up together but that’s about it. With that being said, I can wholeheartedly say that you do not have to have read pride and prejudice to love this book.

The general premise is that our MC Georgie (short for Georgiana) makes a deal with her toxic ex Wickham, vowing that she can become the perfect Darcy and gain her brothers approval. While the premise of the book is unrealistic, it’s easily forgettable once you see Georgie and her love interest, Avery, interact.

I’m convinced that everyone needs an Avery in their life. He’s kind, truly cares about Georgie’s feelings, and shows genuine interest in what she likes. Man is so down bad for her he literally watches her favourite period drama with her!! Avery is an icon, no doubt.

I also really liked Fitz and Georgie having to come to terms with their grief and figuring out how to cooperate instead of butt heads. Their relationship was complex but I loved every minute of it. Oh and speaking of relationships, Fitz and Lizzie are too cute. I absolutely love them together.

Overall I really enjoyed the book and I’d definitely recommend it to a friend. Even if you’ve never read pride and prejudice, you’re gonna wanna give this a try :)

I adored this book! It was just the Pride and Prejudice fix I needed and the Georgie story I never knew I needed. I loved the Pemberley Academy setting. I didn't want this book to end.

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55774460-accomplished" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Novel" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1631282803l/55774460._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55774460-accomplished">Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Novel</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20838136.Amanda_Quain">Amanda Quain</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4669833490">3 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.<br /><br />------<br /><br />Georgie Darcy is beginning her junior year at the prestigious Pemberly Academy, a school which has a history of the Darcy family as alumni. However, Georgie is going into this schoolyear a bit of a social pariah, having spent the past two years isolating herself from making any other friends. Her freshman year she spent entirely with her brother, Fitzwilliam Darcy, a senior who went off to college the next year. Her sophomore year was spent taken up being wooed and deceived by Wickham. She wound up being raveled into a pill dispensing drug ring, organized by Wickham, using her single dorm room as his home base for dealing. Wickham had quite the following, either among the band class, where he excelled at playing trumpet, or among the rest of the school, who missed their dealer. Georgie is able to stay at the school while Wickham is expelled, which leads to Georgie facing some harassment.<br />This modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice follows the basic personalities established in the original story, the frigid Fitz Darcy, the confident and intelligent Lizzie Bennet, the affable Charlie Bingley, and of course, Wickham. Lydia and Jane Bennet also make brief appearances, and Mr. Collins and Lady/Aunt Catherine are referred to as well. It's what I think any Austen fan, and more specifically a fan of Pride and Prejudice, would want to see in a retelling of the classic, brought into a modern backdrop.<br />With all that being said, Georgie Darcy is not a sympathetic character. She's so wound up in her own problems, which are significantly eased by her family's wealth and reputation, that Georgie is petulant and whiny. I had a hard time reading through the first third of the book, as Georgie is either whining about how difficult her life has been, or engaging in behavior she acknowledges in the moment before is counterproductive to how she wants to live. The driving force, Wickham threatening to tell Fitz that he is still in contact with Georgie, really has no leg to stand on. Because we as the audience, and Georgie herself, know that Fitz would immediately step in and end the relationship, eliminating the issue.<br />There are plenty to root for in this story though. The dialogue between characters can be quick and acerbic in a fun way. Georgie has a tendency towards sarcasm or being too biting in her retorts, but that holds with her character. Getting to see the interactions between the characters we know and love, Fitz, Lizzie, Charlie, really does bring joy back into the reading. I think the author did a great job reenvisioning a modern day Charles Bingley, a ripped frat boy hopelessly besotted with the lovely Jane Bennet. <br />The marching band aspect was also an interesting perspective. Having been a music student myself in high school, I appreciated the clique cultural that orchestra or band classes can have being shown in full light. <br />As previously mentioned, the first third of the book was difficult for me to get through, but after that point, the story begins progressing and picking up steam. I initially rated a 2.5, but round up to a 3 star because I was truly enjoying how the story progressed, the dialogue, and the addition of more of Lizzie's character near the end. <br />I would recommend this to students in high school and up. There is some references to drug use, and possible sexual situations, though nothing explicit happens. I think it may be a great introduction to classic-averse readers, allowing them to dip their feet into the Austen world in a modern, relatable setting.
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First things first, I love a good Pride & Prejudice retelling or contemporary adaptation, and this one hit that sweet spot. Imagine Pride & Prejudice but in a contemporary, YA setting and told from Georgiana Darcy's perspective, and she was marching band-playing, fanfiction-writing misfit and I'm into all of it! Here, Georgiana "Georgie" returns to her boarding school junior year after an incident with Wickham nearly threatened expulsion and all she wants to prove is that she can live up to the Darcy name and her big brother Fitzwilliam's legacy. To get Fitz off her back while she tried to do just that, she comes up with the ingenious idea to distract him with love and decides to secretly play matchmaker between Fitz and Lizzie Bennet. This book has such funny, witty language that just pulled me in from the start. Very, very cute.

Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC, in exchange for an honest review. About the first third of this book was so stressful. Like, it just wasn't really enjoyable to read because it was just bad things happening one after the other. After that, though, when Georgie started to get her shit together, I liked it. Of course it had conflict, but there were happy points within it too. Also, Fitz- UGH. I know he had a lot on his plate and he was also damaged and took on a lot at a young age, but the miscommunication trope with Georgie and Fitz was intense.

I LOVED this book! As an Austin fan I fell in love instantly. It's witty, funny and truly just a joy to read. The references to tumblr and AO3 made me laugh out loud. I've become somewhat of a fangirl myself... for this book!

As a Pride and Prejudice enthusiast, I am on board with this extraordinary take.

This story is not actually about Darcy and Elizabeth, but about his sister, Georgiana. I thought this was an interesting take since most P&P retellings never center on the side characters.

Lately I have not been a fan of YA contemporary books so I might not have the most unbiased opinion, yet I thoroughly enjoyed this book!

What a fun read! For fans of Pride and Prejudice, Georgiana is an underdeveloped character in the original script, leaving much to be desired. Quain introduces a whole new generation to the wonderfulness that is this strong young woman, and how her life could have played out. The academy was a fun setting and seemed well developed with world-building and visual imagery, The inclusion of characters, in particular Wickham, allowed Jane Austen fangirls, like me, to feel connected to the original story. The story felt very contemporary and while there were some nods to the classic, the text worked well for a modern audience.
Readers will enjoy Georgiana and will have fun rooting for her and hoping for a sequel!