After reading volume 1, I was expecting the release of the second and third installment impatiently. The release has been delayed many times (also the output of the third originally scheduled in November is postponed to February), while the English versions have emerged since 2009, but either it happens. That said as translations were late coming I bought books in English and I was hugely surprised to translation, it is often rough and it is this which gives the impression, in the French version, that Darcy reflections are so heavy and repetitive. This is unfortunate because it is a series that deserves to be better known and should be better translated. In short if you master the language of Shakespeare, prefer the English.