Title: A Cheat
Review: Complete misuse of Jane Austen's name! Unlike Austen's books, this is no page turner! The book is really a cheat in the end, the Jane Austen hook a marketing ploy of sorts that never lives up to the quality of promise. Story and characters are slim, developments built around Jane Austen books and themes serve as a literary device, but it just wasn't that well executed in terms of adding much more in terms of deeper insights into characters, even complimenting the realities of their lives, much less into the fictional world of Jane Austen itself, which served a fascinating possibility based on the book's title. And as an Austen fan, I fell for that as a buyer. As a reader, none of it panned out thematically. I can't understand how this book earned any glowing reviews. It is a trifle, at best and not remarkable at all in terms of the author's writing style, plot, intelligence or wit.
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