I criticized the previous novel by this author to be too faithful to the original novel, and to pose as repetition of it. With the Journal of Colonel Brandon, I did not get that impression at all on the contrary !!
The novel begins more than 15 years before the events told by Jane Austen. By the time James Brandon, still a young man, madly in love with Eliza Williams, the pupil of his father. We are then described all the events of his life until he met the Dashwood sisters. It only takes a good third of the novel. I saw that it was greatly disappointed that some readers of this book, but for my part I really loved it! One can thus follow the young James, and see it evolve, to become the man who displeases Marianne when they met because of his taciturn and melancholic mood. The rest of the novel is true that tells Jane Austen, but not completely cut and paste. We did not like in the Journal of the Mr Darcy resumed full dialogue.
Amanda Grange succeeded in this novel to find some pungent humor of its model by offering some pretty entertaining characters and describes with some humor of Jane Austen.
In short, for me this book is a success.
