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A review by kblincoln
The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker
4.0
This was a fun romance. You've got an actress from a famous acting family in London's West End theater world going to a crumbling estate to do an Austen-based play with many of her beloved characters in a murder mystery where audience gets to vote on outcomes!
Whew! Just summarizing that sounds crazy. It it crazy, but really its just fun watching the icey, repressed owner of the estate lose his heart to the fun actress playing Lydia Bennett. But what really kept my attention, other than the salacious theater gossip, was the underlying mystery.
The actress' family has some skeletons in their closet, and its all wrapped up with the estate where the play is happening. There is a sad love affair, lying, hidden rooms, and all kinds of fun historical stuff to sift through. There's even a night in a fog-bound castle with a creepy butler! Those things kind of take over from the romance, but I didn't mind because reading the book is kind of like hanging out in a jolly party of slightly emotionally immature theater geeks ;)
I read the first book in this series, Act Like It, and also enjoyed it, but The Austen Playbook adds on even more cool details so this is the better one. For those who like Austen, romance, and theater gossip!
Whew! Just summarizing that sounds crazy. It it crazy, but really its just fun watching the icey, repressed owner of the estate lose his heart to the fun actress playing Lydia Bennett. But what really kept my attention, other than the salacious theater gossip, was the underlying mystery.
The actress' family has some skeletons in their closet, and its all wrapped up with the estate where the play is happening. There is a sad love affair, lying, hidden rooms, and all kinds of fun historical stuff to sift through. There's even a night in a fog-bound castle with a creepy butler! Those things kind of take over from the romance, but I didn't mind because reading the book is kind of like hanging out in a jolly party of slightly emotionally immature theater geeks ;)
I read the first book in this series, Act Like It, and also enjoyed it, but The Austen Playbook adds on even more cool details so this is the better one. For those who like Austen, romance, and theater gossip!