I enjoyed reading Georgie Darcy's story. I'm not a huge Pride and Prejudice fan, but I know the basics and I loved how Lizzie and Fitz were woven in. This modern take on Georgie's life at Pemberly after a "scandal" with her ex-boyfriend Wickham was refreshing. I liked how vulnerable Georgie was and that we got to see the relationship between her and Fitz ebb and flow as situations arose.

I will read just about any YA retelling/spin on Pride and Prejudice and I love getting to dive deeper into Georgiana's story. The development of the character from a slightly spoiled but well-meaning girl to thoughtful friend and sister was done so wonderfully. Additionally, the development of the relationship between Georgiana and Fitz was very sweet. I really loved Avery as a character and love interest for Georgiana. Overall, a very enjoyable read full of wit and charm.

I found this to be an interesting sequel to Pride and Prejudice. I like how the story had a contemporary setting. I found all the characters to be very relatable and charming. Thus, this was a fun and delightful read. The story is sweet, simple, and humorous! I think this is a faithful to Jane Austen! I recommend this for for fans of Eligible, Being Mary Bennet, and Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors!

I love a good retelling, and Pride & Prejudice is one of my all time favorite books. So I was super stoked about this modern day reimagining from Georgie's perspective! Accomplished was a pleasure to read, and I loved seeing my old favorite characters navigating a modern setting. Georgie and Fitz's relationship was so sweet to watch, and I loved seeing them grow and evolve throughout the book. This story put into perspective that even today, far too much weight is often placed on women's "accomplishments", rather than just who we are as people.

A thoughtful and very enjoyable story all throughout!

5/5 stars

ACCOMPLISHED by Amanda Quain is a fun remix on PRIDE & PREJUDICE, focusing on modern-day Georgiana Darcy, dealing with the aftermath of the Wickham scandal.

As a huge P&P and Austen fan, I was thrilled to receive this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review! I read every P&P and Austen retelling I can get my hands on, and this was a very unique, original take on the story, centering around Darcy's younger sister. Georgie is in high school - she's a trombone player, a fanfic writer, a quirky, well-developed, insecure teenager. I loved her! This was a fun story and I really enjoyed the P&P references. I wouldn't read this if you're expecting a P&P retelling per se -it's definitely a story all its own, with an original plot and cast of characters (with some we know and love!). Overall, a sweet and charming read.

I have to get my hands on any sort of Pride and Prejudice or Jane Austen retelling so I immediately requested an eARC for Accomplished by Amanda Quain. I loved that this story gave us Georgiana as the main character. It was different and fresh and I loved seeing things from her point of view.
The story itself is quite different from P&P which wasn't a bad thing! I like how Quain had the same characters, locations but really, the story was its own! Lots of fantastic tropes, high school young love and antics that I loved!

Pride and Prejudice, but:
• make it modern
• Georgiana is the main character
• it’s the story of Georgie rebuilding her life post-Wickham debacle
• it’s friendships
• it’s family
• it’s being a fanfic-writing trombone-playing teenage girl who is trying her best, okay?!

This was a fun and relatively quick read and I really enjoyed it.

I'd like to thank Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A modern day retelling of Pride and Prejudice....umm YES!!! This was a retelling of P&P but using Georgiana Darcy as the main character. Georgiana is the black sheep of the family and seems to always just mess everything up. Even when she tries to fix things and make things right with her brother she always seems to make things worse.

This book is full or drama. I liked that the problems she faced was real and it's what other teens might face in the real world. I feel like they would relate to Georgiana and her struggles with friends, family and boys.

Accomplished
By Amanda Quain

When I found out that this was a Pride and Prejudice retelling focused on Georgiana Darcy, I was over the moon excited, as a die-hard Austen fan. In ACCOMPLISHED, Georgiana is a junior at Pemberley Academy as a junior and up to the task of rebuilding her reputation after an incident with Wickham. Now, Georgiana has to forget about Wickham, and get her brother’s focus away from her and into the eyes of one Lizzie Bennet. I found the writing good, and I did enjoy many moments of the story, that gave a nod to our favorite and beloved characters.

I thought it was a fun read that would be enjoyed by Austenites.

I could not finish this book. I made it to 35% of the way through. The main character was incredibly annoying and stupid with the decisions she was making. Normally characters like this are really fun to watch grow over the story but I hated this character so much, I did not believe that it would be possible for them to grow to a point that I would like them.

I was really excited about the prospect of a modern Pride and Prejudice from Georgiana’s point of view, but the writing style in this book just wasn’t right for me. I think I might like the original Pride and Prejudice too much to enjoy this modernized version, though I was definitely intrigued by Bingley as a frat boy.

I will read just about any Pride and Prejudice retelling so I was super excited about this story about Georgie Darcy. She doesn’t get a lot of attention in the original so I though this would be a cool take. Modern day retelling so are always interesting. Georgie and Wickham’s past made sense. I hated him. He completely used her and her crush on him for his own benefit and basically blackmailed her. I was with Darcy in hating him.
I loved how complicated Darcy and Georgie’s relationship was. I could see a lot clearer than Georgie how much her brother loved and wanted to take care of her. Them arguing over cup holders and making late night target runs was the cutest. They both could’ve handled stuff better. I think that was my biggest problem with this. Georgie just couldn’t see anything else besides her current problems. If she was just honest with her brother about Wickham from the beginning things would’ve been so different.
I like Avery’s character. He was very sweet to her and I think they worked well together. Their conflict/argument was interesting. I’m so glad someone finally told her she needed a better perspective. But some of what he said it almost seemed out of character. The end was cute.

I was really interested in this book - Pride and Prejudice is one of my all time favorite books, and I was excited to read a modern retelling told from Darcy's sister's POV. Unfortunately, the execution just wasn't for me. Honestly, if it weren't for the characters having the same names as in the original novel, this could have been literally any YA rom com book. I don't feel like any of the characters really embodied their original counterparts. I also felt like it was super weird how Georgie went to this exclusive private boarding school, but apparently no one else had any money and everyone hated her because she flaunted her money - like it just didn't make sense to me. She was also very frustrating for most of the book. She didn't really seem to have any growth whatsoever until the very end when it didn't really seem believable. I just felt this was kind of bland and I actually sort of hated that it was based on Pride and Prejudice because I didn't think any of the characters had anything to do with the original characters. Maybe I would have liked it better if it had nothing to do with Austen's work, but this this just didn't work for me.

Accomplished, A Georgie Darcy Novel by Amanda Quain is so good. We know a tiny bit about Georgiana Darcy in Pride & Prejudice, and this book does such a great job of modernizing the characters and fleshing out Georgiana more.

Each modernization felt believable, especially Wickham. The author fleshed out his character to really show his narcissistic, gaslighting, manipulative behavior.

We see a lot of character development with Darcy and Georgiana, over the course of the novel. It felt authentic.

I do believe Pride & Prejudice fans will enjoy this modernization. It was clever and well done.

I love a good Austen retelling but this book fell short to me. It was a little depressing reading about a girl who is completely consumed by what others think of her. There is some growth but I think this would’ve made me so depressed as a teen

In this Pride and Prejudice retelling, Georgiana Darcy is trying to recover her reputation after an incident with toxic lover Wickham left her scrambling to cover up the fact that Wickham was selling drugs out of her dorm room. With the guilt of ruining not only her relationships at school but also the relationship with her brother Fitz, Georgie will do whatever it takes to prove to Wickham and herself that she can change for the better.

I want to go into this review with the preface that I have never read Pride and Prejudice. I know, it's absolutely awful of me. But if you're looking for how this book compares to the actual book it is based off of, I highly recommend checking out some other reviews from people who have read Pride and Prejudice.

Okay let's dive in. It was hard for me to root for Georgie at first. The first half or more of this book is swamped with her own self doubt and how she cannot trust herself, despite trying to make amends for everything that had gone wrong. As a result, I felt like I couldn't trust her as a reader, which is not really something you want to start off with right off the bat. Eventually I did grow to like her as a character, especially as we watch her participate more in the marching band and in her writing. I will admit that I think her writing did take a bit of a backstep in comparison to her love for marching band, so I do think that more could have been done with her writing besides it just being the fact that her fanfictions are almost famous.

That being said, I did love Georgie's character development. You do see her opening up more to people and actually putting in an effort to not only change but also to let people open up to her as well. I will admit that the slander and hate she received was really blown out of proportion, especially with Braden (he disappears somewhere after the second act and I wish we got to see more of him).

I absolutely loved the tension between Fitz and Georgie, it really brings in their powerful dynamic as a brother and sister that are unfortunately forced into a "father daughter" relationship with the passing of their dad. I do wish I understood a bit more why the Darcy family is so rich and influential, but that might be a lack of understanding for me because I never read Pride and Prejudice. I also loved Georgie's relationship with Avery and how the friendship reblossomed into something more, but also I'm always a huge sucker for friends to lovers.

One thing I really appreciate the author discussing in this story is how one bad relationship can really impact the things you love most. Georgie is a huge fan of this show called Sage Hall, and one of the relationships in the show is the driving force behind her fanfictions. She loses her drive to write because of what she had with Wickham, and the trauma and reactions to being reintroduced to Sage Hall after the Incident was really impactful to me, especially as someone who has been in previous toxic relationships. It takes a while for someone to recover from that, and that gradual progression from Georgie's end was really well executed.

Accomplished is perfect for readers who have not read the classics but still wish to be introduced to it in a more modern sense, and it's a great fast read.

I received a copy of this story as an ARC on NetGalley. Any and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

I am a sucker for a Pride & Prejudice retelling, and Accomplished gave us a nice twist in not only being set in modern times, but also for focusing on Darcy's sister Georgiana as the main protagonist.

I loved Georgie! She was likable, but not without flaws. Growing up rich and sheltered, she doesn't pick up on social cues as well as others. This also makes me a bit gullible and we see why it's easy for her to get taken advantage of by Wickham.

As a former colorguard kid, Georgie being a band nerd also was extremely relatable to me. I don't know if Amanda Quain was in band herself, but this is the first time I've seen a marching band portrayed correctly in a book. It was so fantastic and made me really happy.

I feel like this book will be good for anyone that likes YA contemporary romance, and could be a gateway into reading Pride & Prejudice or other Austen stories.

This was such a cute book! I'm definitely a Pride & Prejudice girlie, so this was spot on for me. I really love when a character starts with a few flaws and then works their way through them throughout the book, and that's what I loved about this one. Amanda Quain did a phenomenal job with her character development, and I'd absolutely read an entire book about this version of Charles Bingley. 5/5 would recommend, especially if you have a love for Pride & Prejudice!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a Pride & Prejudice reimagining/retelling from Georgiana's point of view. I am all for P&P retellings and have enjoyed many of them. This one had an interesting premise - Georgiana is having difficulty at school (socially and academically) after a year where she almost got expelled after being tricked into some stuff by Wickham. I just didn't really like the main character. She seemed pretty young, clueless and kept making bad decisions and complaining about how tough she had it. There was a romance for her as well and I liked her love interest but overall this book was ok but not great.

I love Jane Austen, but this book just wasn’t my style. I expected a sweet, meek Georgiana. This one was angry, depressed, and more gutsy. She got into more trouble. She cusses (moderate swearing throughout including the f-word). Her relationship with her brother was more strained.

My favorite modern retellings are from Rachel John, Jenny James, and Misty Dawn Pulsipher.