The review I read for this said that Jane Austen fans would either love it or hate it. Pride and Prejudice is, bar none, my favorite book ever and I went into Longbourn with some apprehension about what Ms. Baker might do to my favorite characters. Turns out I'm in the love-it camp. 
 The characters you love from P&P were not painted in a very favorable light. And yet I felt like I still liked them, like friends you've finally really really gotten to know, warts and all. I was glad that someone else realized that (view spoiler)[Mary totally should have married Mr. Collins (hide spoiler)], and the line about Elizabeth washing her own muddy petticoats made me laugh. Lots of interesting tidbits about how a household might have been run, what a creep Wickham was (no surprises there), and how a black man might have fit into society. I wish there had been more detail about (view spoiler)[Sarah and James's life. How did they make enough money to support a family? Why didn't she just tell him Wickham was persona non grata and he would be welcome back at Longbourn? (hide spoiler)]