A review by anothernicole
Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

4.0

Ok, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend this series; it's well-written and incredibly well-researched, but it's also pretty gruesome/gritty, sometimes graphic, and occasionally risque. But this particular book stands out because in this book, Harris has woven in Jane Austen and Austenilia! Jane Austen and her brother Henry are characters in the story, multiple characters in the story are reading Austen's novels, and a few key characters are deliberately reminisicent of Austenian characters (a character named Anne Preston, for instance, who wasn't allowed to marry the impoverished Captain she loved in her youth). So I thought that was cool--even if I didn't always like how the Austenian characers were portrayed. I am fiercely, stubbornly, and irrationally devoted to Austen's characters and take any slights against them very personally ;) But overall I loved that aspect of the book. And I thought that the conversations between characters and Jane Austen were convincing. I feel like Harris's portrayal of Austen accorded with how I would have wanted her to be drawn hehe :)