Fun--better than other Austen-linked books I've read. Contains some good, philosophical views re: love and money. Also, the hero is just-the-right-amount of attractive without being over-the-top. Biggest peeve is that the heroine has to go back to England to rekindle the romance. This means we're...
I grabbed this one off the library book shelf when I saw "Jane Austen" in the title. Later I regretted it when I found myself alone with this book while trapped on a bus stuck in traffic. It's worse than the Harlequin Romances my mother read in the 70s: the plot is transparent, the characters are...
I had a hard time reading this book for a while. The main character really made me mad. It just really bothered me that the main character was supposed to be an Austen fan, yet she was looking for a husband that had money. That was never any of the Austen heroine's goals. They were all lookin...
I find this book quite offensive and disturbingly sexist.No matter how thinly the author suggests marrying for money is all a joke, the characters still seriously persist in lamenting that women need to fall back on men during hard economic times - blatantly saying that the limited jobs and finan...
it's a movie like novel; and not my type of movies..I gave it two stars because the events were fast paced; you read it fast to see how the hell is it going to end !the idea of going back in time was kid of funny I didn't like the obsession about the grandmother ! it was too much; even for a fict...