Shannon Hale

Book ReviewMidnight in Austenland

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3
Don't you hate a fence sitter, and yet, this is where this book falls, not bad but not great.
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Bloomsbury, 2012

I was looking forward to this second installment in the Austenland series by Shannon because I so very much liked the first, Austenland. But sadly, this second novel is nowhere near the perfection of the first.
Shannon mixes a few aspects of Jane Austen's novels into each of her own. In Austenland we had the play - much like how the characters in Mansfield Park performed a play. In Midnight in Austenland our main gal Charlotte is much like the shy, vulnerable Fanny in Mansfield Park. Charlotte is even given a...

Book ReviewAustenland

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5
This book was so good I'm going to throw a brick through the bookstore window so I can have my own hardcover copy RIGHT NOW!
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Bloomsbury, 2007

I loved, loved, loved this book and the movie recently made (perfectly cast with Kerri Russell and JJ Field). I love the entire concept of this book and think it would be a grand success should someone actually run with the idea and build Austenland for real. Maybe Stephanie Meyer is the girl for that trick - she and her Twilight millions were the pushing force behind turning this 2007 sleeper book into a feature film. To put my own personal light on this review, yes, I do...