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A review by balletbookworm
The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker
4.0
Super-cute contemporary romance between a frosty, Jason Isaacs look-alike theatre critic and a bubbly, musical-theatre actress at a career crossroads. I really liked how Griff and Freddy worked out the mystery and that what looked vaguely like a love-triangle in the making did NOT go there. However, the resolution of the novel is a bit overstuffed with extra side-plots, especially the one about the sister and her hideous boyfriend.
Now, I had been hoping that we would see more of this actual “Jane Austen characters smashed together in a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure whodunnit” but wound up disappointed (although I’d fire the casting director of that fictional TV production bc holy cats was that some bad choices).
Edit on re-read after reading Book 5: you need Sabs and Ferren here otherwise it's a bit tricky getting across their relationship in Headliners on it's own.
Now, I had been hoping that we would see more of this actual “Jane Austen characters smashed together in a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure whodunnit” but wound up disappointed (although I’d fire the casting director of that fictional TV production bc holy cats was that some bad choices).
Edit on re-read after reading Book 5: you need Sabs and Ferren here otherwise it's a bit tricky getting across their relationship in Headliners on it's own.