Title: Too Much Guidance Counselling, Too Little Austen
Product review: As a fan of Persuasion, I was excited to read a modern retelling, but this isn't it. The rekindling of Anne's lost love is practically a side story, while we get description after description of the predicaments of the heroine's high school senior charges and their silly ,status-obsessed parents. One mom is described as always on her way to buy her son tube socks -- what? The novel has its moments, but I wanted more Anne and Ben. Cohen's earlier effort, Jane Austen in Boca, is lots more fun.
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