It's not a badly written book and does serve the limited purpose of explaining how Darcy comes to grips with his love for Elizabeth. However, there's lots of prose dealing with Georgiana and her new beliefs and an odd story about a several days in the country with an old classmate of Darcy's and his looking for an eligible wife that continues for way too long. This could have been condensed into a couple of chapters and suited the purpose adequately. If you are reading the series for the Darcy/Elizabeth interactions you can skip vol. 2 and move straight to the third installment since none of the Bennets make any appearance in the book at all.