Books: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

This month's Book a Month Challenge theme was heart. It could be interpreted as love, romance, star crossed lovers, anything related to the heart, whichever. I picked Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, by Laurie Viera Rigler. I thought hey, I love Jane Austen! They're showing all those Jane Austen movies on Masterpiece on PBS, why not?

Courtney Stone finds herself single and betrayed by her fiance, so what better consolation than to fall into Jane Austen books? After a bender weekend with Pride and Prejudice, she wakes up in the nineteenth century a 30 year old spinster with a mother determined to marry her off to the man next door. As Courtney tries to get home, she slowly gets used to Jane's life and its parallels to Jane Austen's novels and starts to discover what event led to Jane to wish herself out of her life. Her discovery of that leads to a few self realizations of her own life in the future and helps Courtney on her journey home.

This story wasn't bad, but I'm not entirely certain it fit the challenge. It was more of a time travel story (hey, last month's theme!) and less of a romance. Nonetheless, it was a good, quick read and highly enjoyable, especially to someone who likes Jane Austen.