Genre: Contemporary Romance/Historical Romance
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Page Length: 448 pages
Format: iBooks
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️
Mr. Darcy‘s Rating: “Thoroughly tolerable, I dare say.”
A Chasing Mr. Darcy Review
I think it’s fairly obvious to most readers that I love Jane Austen, particularly Pride and Prejudice. When I stumbled across Jane in Love in a flash sale on iBooks, I was super intrigued by the premise.
Here’s a plot synopsis from Amazon: Bath, England, 1803. At 28, Jane Austen prefers walking and reading to balls and assemblies; she dreams of someday publishing her carefully crafted stories. Already on the shelf and in grave danger of becoming a spinster, Jane goes searching for a radical solution—and as a result, seemingly by accident, time-travels. She lands in...Bath, England, present day. The film set of Northanger Abbey. Sofia Wentworth is a Hollywood actress starring in a new period film, an attempt to reinvent her flagging career and, secretly, an attempt to reinvent her failing marriage. When Sofia meets Jane, she marvels at the young actress who can’t seem to "break character," even off set. And Jane—acquainting herself with the horseless steel carriages and seriously shocking fashion of the twenty-first century— meets Sofia, a woman unlike anyone she’s ever met before. Then she meets Fred, Sofia’s brother, who has the audacity to be handsome, clever, and kind-hearted. What happens when Jane, against her better judgement, falls in love with Fred? And when Sofia learns the truth about her new friend Jane? And worst of all, if Jane stays with Fred, will she ever achieve her dream, the one she's now seen come true?
Unfortunately, that initial intrigue I had about this book is where the mystique ends. This story was long, drawn out, at times boring, and ultimately, unsatisfying. I found the characters around Jane shallow and without merit, and I thought Jane herself was indecisive and flat out annoying. I had high expectations for this book, perhaps too high, and it missed those expectations by a mile. The ending left me unsatisfied, and I was disappointed in the plot of the book as a whole.
I feel like this book had a lot of potential, and the potential was wasted. I probably won’t pick up another book by this author moving forward.
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