Meet Your Mark by Elizabeth Adams

Meet Your Mark is a cute Pride & Prejudice variation with a supernatural element. In this regency tale people may choose to receive a soul mark on their thirteenth birthday, which means their soulmate will receive a matching mark indicating that Fate believes those two people are meant to be together. The aristocracy stopped choosing to be marked because they didn’t want to risk being matched with people below their station, but Elizabeth Bennet thinks differently, and on her thirteenth birthday she chooses to go through the marking ceremony to find true love. Her soulmate, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is not happy to see that a mark starts appearing on him, but Fate is never wrong, and as soon as he meets Elizabeth Bennet, he knows she is different than any other woman he has ever met.

This is a short book, but I absolutely loved it and could not stop reading it. I loved the entire background story concerning the soul marks, how they work, and I especially loved seeing each person’s connection with their soul mark. All Bennet family members faced different situations and dealt with them in their own way which carved their personalities. The marks they received, or did not receive, altered their behavior because the marks changed their circumstances and backgrounds, therefore the people in this story still have the same personality traits, but are somewhat a bit more moderate.

I loved how Lydia’s mark was special and how it helped her redeem herself and become a better person, how Kitty’s premature mark allowed her to develop her own pastime and establish a connection to her elder sisters, and I loved Mary’s fate and the outcome she had because she did not receive a mark. It felt like every single character had the mark they needed to become the person they needed to be to achieve happiness. Even Georgiana’s storyline was interesting and demonstrated there is more to the soul marks society than people originally though.

The differences the soul marks created in the characters behaviors also altered their relationships, and I loved the dynamics that were developed in this book. The closer connection between Mr. Bennet and Lydia, the playful friendship between Kitty and Elizabeth, and even the estrangement between Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet was interestingly explained by the soul marks. I loved how every single aspect of the storyline was intrinsically connected to the characters personalities and fates.

Another aspect of this book I truly loved were the flirtatious dialogues between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth, Elizabeth Adams as a way with words that makes us feel exactly what the main characters are feeling, and she made me vibrate with Darcy and Elizabeth in their encounter by the billiard table at Netherfield.

The humor was another detail that made me love this book, Meet Your Mark is incredibly well written and extremely funny in an effortless and classy manner. Kitty was a particularly funny character, and I would love to have seen her character and her soul mate a little bit more explored at the end of the story, just as I would love to know more about Mr. Bennet’s mark, which means this book asks for a sequel to be written!

Elizabeth Adams is an incredible writer, and she did an amazing job with this book which is a light, funny but also exciting romance between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. The world building was so well executed that I felt I was there with the characters, and in fact I wanted to continue there with them for much longer. I highly recommend this book to all readers.

You can find Meet Your Mark at:

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

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