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So Into You (2014)

by Cecilia Gray(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1938268075 (ISBN13: 9781938268076)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Gray Life, LLC

series

The Jane Austen Academy Series

review 1: E-galley received for review through Netgalley.So Into You is the second book set at Jane Austen Academy, and a retelling of Sense and Sensibility. The main character is Ellie Dvorak, with her roommate Emma filling Marianne's role. Ellie finds her happily ever after, but Emma doesn't - I expect she will get her own story told in the Emma retelling.Ellie is a laid-back student at Jane Austen Academy. At the beginning of the school year, she's having fun and flirting with one of the new male students, cheerful Edward. However, her yoga-teaching parents drop a bomb on her: they want her to leave the school and move with them with Guatemala, where they are opening a new yoga studio. Ellie doesn't want to leave, and the headmistress encourages her to compete for the science ach... moreievements award, as well as finding a job in the cafeteria. Will she manage to find the maìoney she needs to pay for her own tuition?In the meantime, Ellie's roommate Emma is having her own romance with actor Josh Wickham, and Lizzie is planning her own schemes to get the anonymous school owners to reveal themselves.This is another fun, sweet, short retelling. Ellie is a very level-headed heroine, ready to think logically and find her own solutions to her problems. After all, she's been managing her family's finances for years. When her parents announce to her that they want her to move to a foreign country, she's disoriented and disappnted. Not only will she have to leave her friends, but she will also have to abandon her hopes of finding love with Edward.The plot of So into You follows Sense and Sensibility closely, as far as Elinor is concerned. Emma/Marianne has her heart broken by Wickham/Willoughby, and no resolution to her story, even though there's already someone interested in her (he's named Knight, wink wink). Sense and Sensibility is one of my favourite Austen novels and I think this retelling did a fair job of adapting the content to modern times.
review 2: Cute little story. I did not read the first in the series which might have given you more information about Ellie and Edward. To me you just jump in and they are friends and she likes him. The first part seemed cute but then they just didn't talk until the end of the book. Some parts I found myself speed reading through. I could read other's in the series. Also some language. One thing I didn't like is they talk about someone like (Anne from Persuasion) dating this guy for a long time. Or Edward knowing Lucy since they were kids and dating since then. But here they are in a boarding school and are Juniors and such. But still has some cute parts. I do enjoy the headmistresses character. less

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