Review: When I'm With You - Book #3 Jane Austen Academy Series - Cecilia Gray - December 2012 Years ago, I stumbled upon The Jane Austen Academy series, and it's become one of those comfort reads I return to when the mood strikes. As a devoted mood reader, I have to wait for exactly the right moment to dive into each installment, and recently I found myself craving something fun and cozy. A YA retelling of Northanger Abbey? Perfect. When I'm With You centers on Kat, a character whose dual nature immediately captivated me. Off stage, she's awkward and naive, someone who hasn't quite found her footing in everyday interactions. But put her on stage, and she transforms completely confident, radiant, utterly alive. When she lands a position as Josh Wickham's PA on a real movie set over Christmas break, with the added bonus of working as an extra, it seems like a dream come true. What follows is a sobering education in the darker side of Hollywood glamour. Cecilia...

Review: Northanger Abbey - The Austen Project Series - Val McDermid - March 2014 This month's reading challenge is to clear my TBR bookshelves and focus on books that have been sitting there for a while. I decided to start by grabbing ones that I know have been there a long time, like this one that has been sitting on my bookshelf for nearly ten years. I wasn't sure how I would find this one as I do love my renditions but didn't know much of the story of Northanger Abbey as it isn't one of Austen's most known works and one people I have heard said is aimed at the younger audience due to the main characters age. The other thing was that Val McDermid is said to be the Queen of Crime and so I wasn't sure how she would transfer her skills to an Austen tale. After reading it, I can surely doth protest that Val McDermid did an amazing job as the book was so easy to follow and read and held my attention. In Northanger Abbey, we first met Cat Morland who has come to E...

Dark Blue Waves Kimberly Sullivan Publication date: May 27th 2022 Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance, Time-Travel, Women’s Fiction When you wake up in Bath, England two hundred years in the past, how far can a love of Jane Austen get you? Janet Roberts dreams of an academic career in literature, so she can hardly believe her good fortune when she’s accepted into a Jane Austen graduate seminar in Bath, England. Settled in Georgian splendor among her seminar colleagues, Janet and her classmates live, eat and breathe Jane Austen. An accident interrupts this idyll when Janet regains consciousness in her own room—back in Regency England. For a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, this should be a dream come true. But Janet quickly learns there’s a world of difference between scholarly knowledge of the written page and maneuvering real life as a reluctant time traveler. Her burgeoning friendship with Emma Huntington eases her entrée into nineteenth-century society. However,...

Review: Lies Jane Austen Told Me - Julie Wright - November 2017 Ever since Emma first read Pride and Prejudice, she has based all her romantic ideals on Austen and her advice and quotes. However, when she decides to do something spontaneous, and turns up to her boyfriend Blake's parent's house and sees him there with another girl Trish the fish. She decides it is time to break up with Jane Austen as she has been steered too many times in the wrong direction. Leaving Blake's, Emma realizes she is slightly stranded and ends up getting a ride to the train station with Blake's brother Luke Hampton. Weekend over and back at work, imagine Emma's surprise when her boss brings in the new consultant she will be working closely with aka Luke Hampton. As the book goes along, we see that Luke is Emma's perfect match but what will happen when Blake tries to win Emma back and Luke starts to back off as he doesn't want to get in between his brother's happiness, even if...