Austenland by Shannon Hale




Title: Austenland



Author: Shannon Hale




Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 





Release: May 29, 2007




Pages: 197





Synopsis:





Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined.





Decked out in empire-waist gowns, Jane struggles to master Regency etiquette and flirts with gardeners and gentlemen;or maybe even, she suspects, with the actors who are playing them. It's all a game, Jane knows. And yet the longer she stays, the more her insecurities seem to fall away, and the more she wonders: Is she about to kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?





Review:


I've got a confession: I'm a massive romantic comedy movie fan. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've seen Sleepless in Seattle or You've Got Mail. I've seen basically all of the mainstream ones, including the movie adaptation for Austenland. I'm ashamed to say that I watched the movie before reading the book (which to be fair I didn't know existed). Austenland (the movie) was one of my favorites in the seemingly never ending stream of Pride & Prejudice adaptations, so reading the book was a no brainer.





This take on Jane Austen's classic is a sort of self-aware-but-not-really version.

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