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Reviews
Selected reviews of the novels RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT and CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, and the web series inspired by the novels, SEX AND THE AUSTEN GIRL. (For more reviews, click on the title of the book on the menu bar above):
USA Today (Confessions review)
Authors Write for the Love of Jane Austen
by Deirdre Donohue, USA Today
After discovering that her fiancé betrayed her with the woman designing their wedding cake, a devastated Courtney Stone wakes up not in Los Angeles but in a four-poster bed in 1813 England. A devotee of all things Austen, she now discovers the reality of life in Regency England: rampant body odor, sexual and class repression and a style of medical care involving bloodletting. With a plot in two different centuries, Addict is a bit disjointed, but Rigler does a perceptive job in contrasting the different eras. Despite the smells, little in Courtney's current lifestyle — including most of the men — can compete with the erotic charge of dancing in a candlelit ballroom.