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My Particular Friend: A Charlotte House Affair (Volume 1), by Jennifer Petkus – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgian Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 27 April 2012 | 7 Comments »

Review by Jeffrey Ward In her fledgling foray into the growing field of Austenesque fan fiction, author Jennifer Petkus takes an entirely new direction from her first novel, Good Cop, Dead Cop, with My Particular Friend, mixing up Regency match making and mystery, which some may argue are one in the same. My attempts to [...]

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A Pemberley Medley: Five Pride & Prejudice Variations, by Abigail Reynolds – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 18 April 2012 | 20 Comments »

Review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder Whenever I finish an Abigail Reynolds book, I never feel like I’m completely done with the story.  What I mean by this is her writing always gets me totally engrossed in the stories making me wish they’d never end.  I always feel satisfied with where they’ve gone plot wise, but she [...]

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Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination, by Juliette Wells – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Critiques & Analysis Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 28 March 2012 | 9 Comments »

Review by Aia A. Hussein The epigraph to chapter 3 of Juliette Wells’ new book Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination is taken from Michael Chabon’s “The Amateur Family” in Manhood for Amateurs (2010) and is one of the most interesting, almost poetic, descriptions of amateurs that I have ever read (it is quite [...]

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Echoes of Pemberley, by Cynthia Ingram Hensley – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, Young Adult Fiction Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 21 March 2012 | 13 Comments »

Review by Christina Boyd Debut author Cynthia Ingram Hensley presents Echoes of Pemberley, a contemporary Pride and Prejudice spin-off for young adults. The modern day residents of Pemberley estate are the descendants of Jane Austen’s very own Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.  A fatal plane crash eight years previous orphaned Catherine Elizabeth Darcy and left [...]

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Austentatious, by Alyssa Goodnight – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 4 February 2012 | 6 Comments »

Guest Review by Aia A. Hussein The archetypical figure of the fairy godmother – an imagined mentor with supernatural powers – is an attractive trope because it suggests that certain elements of the unseen universe are rooting for us whether we are aware of it or not.  The most popular fairy godmother is arguably the [...]

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A Crimson Warning (Lady Emily Series #6), by Tasha Alexander – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Victorian Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 14 January 2012 | 14 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder Jane Austen spoiled us.  She wrote novels about amazing women who oftentimes bucked society’s norms.  Nowadays, it’s difficult to find heroines like Elizabeth Bennet that have us rooting for them page after page.  Luckily, author Tasha Alexander decided to gift the world with a tenacious woman Austen herself would be [...]

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