Jane Austen Heroes (5 books in series)
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review 1: When I decided to reread Jane Austen in 2014, I had a feeling that I'd also end up rereading Amanda Grange's Diary series. After finishing Austen's Sense and Sensibility, I felt the need to reread Colonel Brandon's Diary. It was just as lovely as I remembered. In fact, if I hadn'...
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review 1: As much as I love Jane Austen, I couldn't finish this book. The character may have been one of my favorite Austen ones, but the writing style, dialogue, and way the characters acted in this book were VERY unAusten-like. It was set in the proper time period, but the characters act...
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review 1: Absolute love. I love this series of retellings from the heroes perspective from Amanda Grange. She takes hold of the story and retells it, as I said, from the heroes pov from his journal. She fills in the other side of the story so well, so everything just fits like a glove. She...
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review 1: I normally like Austen inspired fiction and have read other works by Amanda Grange and enjoyed them but I found this one very difficult to like. I think particularly that the author has been very lazy as she gives much of the early diary entries into the characters reading aloud...
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review 1: I found it interesting reading about Brandon's time in the West Indies (or rather, India) but I wish the author had drawn it out even more, to get a more interesting picture of Brandon. Of all the characters, Brandon still seemed the most flat, despite the fact that it is written...