Austenland
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Jane Hayes is a young New Yorker with a real romantic problem: no man she meets can compare to her one true love―Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort for Austen fanatics, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined.
Dressed in empire waist gowns and torn between a sexy gardener and an actor playing the brooding Darcy role, Jane finds herself mastering the rules of etiquette and of the resort’s flirtatious games. But when it’s time to bid Austenland goodbye, can Jane really leave her fantasies―and the two men who’ve played into them―behind?
In this addictive, charming, and entirely delightful story, Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us.
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I loved the idea of Austenland - pretending to live in the times of Jane Austen's novels, kind of an regency amusement park. Unfortunately it turned out to be rather boring. There was almost nothing happening. The flashbacks to the protagonists several boyfriends were just unimportant. Everything felt constructed, especially the love story. There was nothing natural in it, no romance or anything. I couldn't feel any chemistry between the characters. The protagonist was annoying and very childish. I am kind of glad this wasn't a full-length novel, I probably would have given up on it.
Description
Jane Hayes is a young New Yorker with a real romantic problem: no man she meets can compare to her one true love―Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort for Austen fanatics, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined.
Dressed in empire waist gowns and torn between a sexy gardener and an actor playing the brooding Darcy role, Jane finds herself mastering the rules of etiquette and of the resort’s flirtatious games. But when it’s time to bid Austenland goodbye, can Jane really leave her fantasies―and the two men who’ve played into them―behind?
In this addictive, charming, and entirely delightful story, Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us.
Book Information
Posts
I loved the idea of Austenland - pretending to live in the times of Jane Austen's novels, kind of an regency amusement park. Unfortunately it turned out to be rather boring. There was almost nothing happening. The flashbacks to the protagonists several boyfriends were just unimportant. Everything felt constructed, especially the love story. There was nothing natural in it, no romance or anything. I couldn't feel any chemistry between the characters. The protagonist was annoying and very childish. I am kind of glad this wasn't a full-length novel, I probably would have given up on it.