] I have completed the book already so I won't discuss plot - no spoilers here! I read it over the weekend because I couldn't put it down,

Me too. I couldn't put it down on Saturday. So,...no more discussion or spoilers, but a general discussion of magic belief, is OK. Right?
] Personally, I tend to be more like Mr. Darcy

Well, I wouldn't be that firm on that. I don't believe in the supernatural in the extreme, BUT - there are so many things in life that cannot be explained scientifically, and there has to be some other force.
] Who do you feel you are more like - Lizzy, or Darcy, ...