Sunday, October 21, 2012

Rude awakenings of a Jane Austen addict

43.  Laura Viera Rigler Rude awakening of a Jane Austen addict
I am a sucker for anything regency!  However, I really pleased to read the sequel to Confessions of a Jane Austen addict.  I think the thing I liked about this book was the fact that it has one of those premises (Like Narnia) of something totally expected happening to you. Something that's not likely to happen in real life- but it would be nice to dream! In this book, a young lady, one Jane Mansfield ends up having swapped bodies with a modern-day Austen addict, Courtney Stone, whose life is in a mess.
Hilarious, imagining what someone from the time of Ms Austen would make of all our modern technology and ways of life, especially in New York! The way Jane Mansfield reacts to all the thingsand people she comes across, doesn't fail to amuse all the way through. Things such as TV, music, driving and clothing! There is a romantic subplot which is pleasing but ever so slightly wrong, since it involves Jane as someone else!  The ending to me seemed to have some discrepancy with the ending of the previous book.
Also, the thing that irritates me about this book which irritated me about the prequel, is that you never get to know WHY it happens and HOW!  And it ends slightly unresolved. Both things that I dislike about books!  I know that it doesn't matter about knowing, but even if it doesn't seem real, I'd like an explanation!   It's been a while since I've done one of these. This is because my current read is 675 pages long in tiny print, large page format!  It's going to be a while! Would you, have you read this book?

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