It has Capt. Wentworth and Mr. Darcy! It can't be that bad!

Bebris, Carrie. The Deception at Lyme, or, The Peril of Persuasion. New York: Tor Books, 2011.

Ok, this series is my deep dark secret. I want to be above it, but I keep reading. This is book 6! It's based on Jane Austen's characters. (Pass on the first two. They have paranormal activities and it's too jarring to have Fitzwilliam Darcy talking about ghosts and Dorian Gray style stuff. After those, they're much better.) This one involves the Persuasion characters: Captian and Mrs Wentworth and the whole Elliot clan. The first time the reader meets Wentworth, he's soaking wet. That should be enough to whet your appetite for this book or should I say "wet"...no I shouldn't.

I think Bebris does a great job at staying true to the Austen characters while making them her own at least for the most part. A million times better than say...Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (Why would Darcy talk to Elizabeth about his balls even if he is referring to the musket kind? Seth Grahame-Smith, get your obvious dudeness out of P & P! It's a chick book. Hence the long string of hotties who have tried to live up to Mr. Darcy: Colin Firth...does the list really need to continue? When he jumps in that nasty water at Pemberley...sigh...another excellent example of "wetting" your appetite, eh? No, I just can't do it. )