Helpful Score: 6
I am a HUGE Jane Austen fan, but not a snobby one (i.e. I can enjoy the film adaptions without getting worked up about the historical inaccuracies. So I really looked forward to reading this book. Alas, it was a disappointment. Part of it is my own pet peeve with time travel books. I HATE when character that "find themselves" in another era insist on using modern jargon and engaging in modern behavior knowing full well that it makes them look crazy and/or disrupts the plot with contrived drama surrounding their cultural slip-ups. It doesn't strike me as spunky or witty or creative. It's just stupid. The main character in this book, Courtney Stone, insists on acting like a 21st Century Californian in Regency Era England to the detriment of the plot. For example, Courtney, who is living the life of a well to-do gentlewoman, agrees (indeed, insists) on meeting in Sydney Gardnes alone with a male servant from her household despite being told explicitly that it would lead to gossip about her behavior and cause problems for her, her family and her friends. . . and she does it anyway because it would be no big deal back home in good 'ol 21st Century L.A. Of course, all sorts of drama ensues. Yawn.
I could forgive all that if the characters were likable. . .but they aren't. Or if the plot was intriguing. . .but it isn't. Or if the writing was funny. . .but it isn't even close.
I could forgive all that if the characters were likable. . .but they aren't. Or if the plot was intriguing. . .but it isn't. Or if the writing was funny. . .but it isn't even close.
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