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I'm a big fan of Jane Austen, but that caused me to bristle a bit at the start of this pastiche with every allusion or near quote. I'm generally not a fan of the professionally published Austen fanfic, since they just doesn't bear comparison to the original. However, I have greatly enjoyed Carrie Bebris' mysteries with Darcy and Elizabeth of Pride and Prejudice as sleuths--they're like spending time with old friends, and set within an entirely different genre, the comparisons don't feel so invid
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I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I didn't like that it was based on Jane Austen as a character. I would rather have had the author just base the book on someone who would have been a Jane Austen character or lived in the same time period, not Jane Austen herself. If I forgot that it was supposed to be Jane Austen I liked it.
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