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A review by candacesiegle_greedyreader
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
4.0
Jane Austen and her characters are up to all kinds of mischief--fighting Zombies, wicked sea monsters, high school bad girls, and now, time travel!
This is a clever and sly novel about what would happen if Jane were transported to pre-covid 2020 and finds love. The price of that love is that her books will not ever have been written, and she will never have existed in her time.
She lands in modern Bath where a film version of "Northanger Abbey" is being filmed, so she sort of fits in. She appears out of the stage curtains before Sofia Wentworth, mega movie star who is having career and relationship problems and who thinks Jane is another crazed Jane fan who maybe she can make use of. Jane is resourceful and curious about her new world; Sofia is resourceful in her current world, and her teacher-brother Fred is bewildered in a good and charming way.
"Jane in Love" is lots of fun. Jane's curiosity about the modern world is exactly like you would hope it would be. Sofia's struggles on the movie set are much more fun than usual because she is a fine actress whose career was hijacked by her beauty. Fred is a loving soul, but is putting up with male sulking worth giving up writing the books that mean so much to so many?
You'll love all the characters and I don't mean to make Fred sound like a jerk--he's kind and devoted to Jane--but the issues she faces are still faced by so many women, even in this modern world.
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader. Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for sharing this delightful romp!
This is a clever and sly novel about what would happen if Jane were transported to pre-covid 2020 and finds love. The price of that love is that her books will not ever have been written, and she will never have existed in her time.
She lands in modern Bath where a film version of "Northanger Abbey" is being filmed, so she sort of fits in. She appears out of the stage curtains before Sofia Wentworth, mega movie star who is having career and relationship problems and who thinks Jane is another crazed Jane fan who maybe she can make use of. Jane is resourceful and curious about her new world; Sofia is resourceful in her current world, and her teacher-brother Fred is bewildered in a good and charming way.
"Jane in Love" is lots of fun. Jane's curiosity about the modern world is exactly like you would hope it would be. Sofia's struggles on the movie set are much more fun than usual because she is a fine actress whose career was hijacked by her beauty. Fred is a loving soul, but is putting up with male sulking worth giving up writing the books that mean so much to so many?
You'll love all the characters and I don't mean to make Fred sound like a jerk--he's kind and devoted to Jane--but the issues she faces are still faced by so many women, even in this modern world.
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader. Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for sharing this delightful romp!