Shades of Pemberley by edlebelle & mysterious writing partner

I don’t know where to begin with this one.  This also belongs to the secret relations genre, as well as the royalty genre.  Also the Bennets are worse parents than in cannon genre.  Well…I might as well get to it.

Why you should read it: You’re a masochist who enjoys bad writing and ridiculous plots (and not in a so bad it’s good sort of way).

Why you might not like it: Oh…where do I begin?  It’s badly in need of an editor/beta, although even with the best editor I doubt this story can be redeemed and even be made mediocre.

Regency, NC-17, AU WIP at AHA

In this story Elizabeth is the product of an affair between an already married Mr Bennet and a Portuguese Princess, and somehow even though she’s a bastard has the title of Princess and while the Bennet’s are nasty, the Portuguese side completely accepts her once she finds out they exist.

I’m not really sure how to describe the plot, a cross between train wreck and a soap opera might be the best description…let’s see Elizabeth and Darcy fall in love early, despite Mr Bennet telling him that she’s a bastard (something he tells all prospective suitors to drive them away), then she sleeps with and runs away after hearing that’s she’s a bastard daughter of a Portuguese maid, and then she’s attacked and almost raped and of course is saved by Darcy…then they get married…um then the same men come and attack her again.  I have no idea what happened after that, because I couldn’t even bring myself to skim through it after a while.

This is so poorly written I only read part of the first chapter and then skimmed through for a while, until I couldn’t even handle that and gave up.  Here is an excerpt.  It actually looks like they got a beta to help with some of the writing since I originally looked at it…

It did not really matter if Elizabeth looked special, Mrs. Bennet thought. Mr. Collins would take her anyway he could get her of that she was certain, but her beautiful Jane was going to get Bingley and his 5,000 lbs tonight and with a bit of luck she would get a romance budding for Lydia and Mr. Darcy.

The sex is not at all sexy.  Of course the term manhood is used.  Here’s a snippet: “then his seed exploded in to her body and her passion ripened to accept the bounty he deposited.”

This is written by edlebelle and a mysterious writing partner who is always referred to as “my writing partner” in author’s notes.  I can’t really blame the writing partner for remaining anonymous, I wouldn’t want to publicly connect myself with this either.