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A review by mirandadarrow
The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker
3.0
This is the third romance I've read in the last month featuring a famous actress who holds insecurities that she got her career based on family connections rather than talent. Nepotism is pretty much half of Hollywood, so, fair, but it was a lot to see this same situation playing out in Once Upon a Bad Boy, Twice in a Blue Moon, and now The Austen Playbook.
I think this book had a disadvantage to me because I'd already read the other two, and I didn't realize when I got the audiobook that it was the fourth in a series. I'm not sure how many of the characters were carryovers and whether I'd missed out on plotlines because I jumped in here. It worked fine as stand-alone.
I was okay with both the heroine and hero, but not wowed by either of them. He's a critic who savaged her last role on stage. Which was fair, because she screwed up her lines and ended up reciting song lyrics instead. But, he reveled in being a jerk. I don't really like people who thrive on being an asshole.
The heroine was a doormat who had let her dad-manager pick all of her roles even though they weren't the ones she wanted or that she was particularly good at, as he was reliving his lost glory days on the stage through her. Yes, she stopped being such a mamby-pamby pushover to her dad, but it took a long time.
Also, I love Jane Austen and have read a ridiculous amount of derivative products. This was decent, but not my favorite Austen-inspired work. It was good, but not great for me.
I think this book had a disadvantage to me because I'd already read the other two, and I didn't realize when I got the audiobook that it was the fourth in a series. I'm not sure how many of the characters were carryovers and whether I'd missed out on plotlines because I jumped in here. It worked fine as stand-alone.
I was okay with both the heroine and hero, but not wowed by either of them. He's a critic who savaged her last role on stage. Which was fair, because she screwed up her lines and ended up reciting song lyrics instead. But, he reveled in being a jerk. I don't really like people who thrive on being an asshole.
The heroine was a doormat who had let her dad-manager pick all of her roles even though they weren't the ones she wanted or that she was particularly good at, as he was reliving his lost glory days on the stage through her. Yes, she stopped being such a mamby-pamby pushover to her dad, but it took a long time.
Also, I love Jane Austen and have read a ridiculous amount of derivative products. This was decent, but not my favorite Austen-inspired work. It was good, but not great for me.