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Captain Wentworth Home from the Sea: A Re-imagining of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, by Mary Lydon Simonsen – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 22 February 2012 | 3 Comments »

Guest review by Lucy Warriner If your lost love returned with no recollection of the dispute that separated you, how would you react? If you had a second chance at happiness with him, would you divulge your tumultuous past? Anne Elliot faces these questions in Captain Wentworth Home from the Sea, Mary Lydon Simonsen’s new [...]

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Second Impressions, by Ava Farmer – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 18 February 2012 | 9 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising With her husband’s solemn assurances that he did not regret his marriage to her as the cause of no heir, his generous and reasonable reflections on the matter, and his half-jest that , ‘should Georgiana never marry, one of the Bingley boys will do very well,’ Elizabeth [...]

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Mr. Darcy’s Letter, by Abigail Reynolds – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 18 January 2012 | 8 Comments »

Guest review by Christina Boyd In this latest self-published offering from the Pride & Prejudice variation author, Abigail Reynolds’s, Mr. Darcy’s Letter responds to the query: What might have happened had Elizabeth Bennet never accepted Mr. Darcy’s letter that defended his actions in separating his friend from her sister and acquitted him of any cruelty [...]

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Death Comes to Pemberley, by P. D. James – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 4 January 2012 | 29 Comments »

I consider it more than a bit perplexing when an author begins their book with an apology. In this case, it is to author Jane Austen for using her characters. Since Death Comes to Pemberley is a sequel to Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it is like apologizing for snow being cold. If you are going [...]

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Willoughby’s Return: A Tale of Irresistable Temptation, by Jane Odiwe – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged , , , , , on 28 December 2011 | 33 Comments »

This is my final contribution to The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Reading Challenge 2011. Feeling nostalgic during the holidays, I resorted to an old chestnut in selection of my final read. I enjoyed Willoughby’s Return immeasurably when I first read it two years ago. After re-reading it again, I began to write my new review [...]

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His Good Opinion: A Mr. Darcy Novel, by Nancy Kelley – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 21 December 2011 | 8 Comments »

Guest review by Christina Boyd Debut author Nancy Kelley’s self-published novel, His Good Opinion, A Mr. Darcy Novel, is the parallel story to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, told from this male protagonist’s point of view.  Fatigued from London’s matchmaking mamas, Darcy never imagined a country miss could captivate him and yet, while visiting his [...]

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Epic Fail, by Claire LaZebnik – Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, Young Adult Fiction Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 18 December 2011 | 5 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder of Reflections of a Book Addict One of the greatest things about book blogging is the ability to spread the gift of reading to everyone that comes across my blog.  This is especially true with younger readers, who may have less exposure now to “the classics” than I might have [...]

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Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron: Being a Jane Austen Mystery, by Stephanie Barron – A Review

Posted in Being a Jane Austen Mystery Reading Challenge 2011, Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 14 December 2011 | 20 Comments »

One thinks of Jane Austen as a retiring spinster who writes secretly, prefers her privacy and enjoys quiet walks in the Hampshire countryside. Instead, she has applied her intuitive skills of astute observation and deductive reasoning to solve crime in Stephanie Barron’s Austen inspired mystery series. It is an ingenious paradox that would make even [...]

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