Reviewed by Ro

TITLE: My Darcy

AUTHOR: Lily Morton

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH:  66 pages

RELEASE DATE:  May 9, 2024

BLURB:

Freddie Evans is flamboyant, funny, and a lifelong fan of Jane Austen’s love stories which is how he ended up as a guide on a tour bus. He firmly believes in happily ever afters and would love to find his own with his best friend, Darcy.

Driving a Jane Austen tour bus isn’t the most exciting side job in the world, but to Darcy Griffiths, it represents precious time with his best friend Freddie, who’s the guide. He’s loved him since they were teenagers but has never had the nerve to tell him.

Secrets and feelings become revealed as Freddie and Darcy deal with overly amorous newlyweds and arguments over seat allocations. What will Freddie do when he finally realises his very own Mr Darcy is right under his nose?

This novella originally appeared in the Heart2Heart charity anthology, and no new content has been added.

REVIEW:

This short novella centers around two best friends, Freddie and Darcy. Freddie loves all things Regency and dresses in costume for his job on a tour bus. His best friend since toddlerhood is the bus driver, Darcy. They are actually both in love with the other but both too scared to ruin a friendship and say so. Freddie is always hoping Darcy is happy. “You always push them at me.”

This is a sweet, funny novella with a hopelessly in love newlywed couple, a trio of older women I want to be when I grow up, a feuding mother and daughter, a man just there to make his wife happy and, of course, our tour guide and driver.

Freddie is about to meet someone he’s been talking to on an app and it devastates Darcy, who is angry at Freddie for the first time ever. Darcy has also been talking to someone but feels it’s not fair. He is hung up on “No one who’s ever going to love me back.” That broke my heart for him.

This has Lily Morton’s signature snark and banter between the two and a definite case of just talk already. So sweet!

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