Title: The title is all I liked about this book.
Review: About halfway into the novel I realized the book is probably only as popular as it is because of the title. After all, us Jane Austen fans only have a handful of her books to read and re-read, so we have to get more of her in some other way... but this book by Fowler certainly is not the answer. There are some clever parallels between Austen's themes and the characters in this book, but not enough to make it interesting. In fact, I never came to like ANY of the six characters in this book, and the sparse references to Austen didn't make this book worth the while.
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