It took me a bit to get into this book, I felt the author was trying too hard to establish her premise of time/space change.

A maybe read if you're an avid reader. I'd rather spend my time reading the real deal.

It was cute. It only gets two stars because I'm not quite sure I'd go around recommending it to friends. It was a fun frivolous read that I'm not sorry for, but I got it from the library on purpose.

This was a cute story about a girl who, after a bad break-up and lots of vodka, wakes up in Regent England. She is basically now living the life as a contemporary of Jane Austen's characters. It was a fun little read, but never went as far as I had hoped it would. It just kind of ends and you don't truly get any closure. The historical bits were fun and pretty accurate. If you really are a Jane Austen addict, you might find this story interesting, however it didn't have enough of a hold to make me want to read it again.

Should be titled "Confessions of Woman Who Read Some Austen Novels and Didn't Think They Were Half Bad." The protagonist has no clue how to move in Regency society. For someone who claims to be an addict she doesn't really seem to understand the different roles of all the players.

Maybe the character was using her behavior to upset the norms and thereby shake herself out of what she initially understands to be some sort of dream? If so, that is not clearly communicated. However, since the the title claims she is a Jane Austen addict, how was she able to resist playing the role to the hilt and answering all the unanswered questions a reader has about her favorite book?

Instead the heroine tries to buck the system with her modernity, pisses off the mother, tries to seduce the help and moons about the boy back home. And even though she keeps saying she wants to find her way home, she never really seems to give it an earnest go.

I was disappointed with the lack of tension and good common sense. And I think the storyline would have benefited from a more in depth look at the family relationships and how women of that time period managed to get what they wanted in spite of the social mores of the time.

I listened to the book on CD. It was an interesting idea: the main character is ripped out of her life in modern times after finding her fiance cheating on her with the woman baking their wedding cake to find herself in another woman's body in the 1800's during Jane Austen's time. At least there are no zombies or vampires running around in this book! It's was short enoough to finish in a week's worth of driving. It's not a book I ould read (or listen to) over and over again.

I noticed this book at a lending library, picked it up, and read it over a few days.

At first I found it an enjoyable read. A time-travel story infused with Austen -- what's not to love? Besides that, there's a mystery -- one that kept me reading. I wanted to know what the snatches of "memories" meant, if so-and-so was really a villain, and if the protagonist would ever figure out a way to return to her present life.

The ending, however, was completely bewildering. It left several plot threads going berserk. As I finished the last page, I felt like I'd been having a really good dream where I was about to receive a delicious treat... only to be rudely awakened by a screaming alarm clock. The story was just -- over. I was completely confused and dissatisfied.

I understand that there's a companion book to this one. Maybe that book explains it all. I guess I'll never know. Fool me once, shame on you. We're not going for two.

A fun book to bring to the beach. Makes you think twice about wishing you lived in Jane Austen's era!

Courtney Stone is an L.A. hotshot who is currently drowning her sorrows with alcohol and Jane Austen after catching her fiance cheating. To add to the betrayal, her male best friend was covering for the cheat. After falling asleep in this alcohol-and-Austen-fueled state, she wakes up in her very own Austen novel. With a crazy, overbearing mother obsessed with getting her married, a father who seeks refuge from his bitch of a wife in his study, and a kind but infuriatingly submissive maid, Courtney can’t believe how lifelike this dream seems. However, after spending a few days with bloodletting doctors, annoying relations, and interesting neighborhood callers, she’s beginning to realize that this isn’t a dream at all. She’s trapped in the body and life of Miss Jane Mansfield, a woman whose face stares out at her when Courtney looks in the mirror. Courtney is doing a pretty good job at convincing everyone she’s not crazy, despite not being able to recall any memories from Mansfield’s life, but when handsome Charles Edgeworth arrives and stirs up some distant memories that are not her own, will she be able to hold it together enough to keep herself from a Regency era loony bin?

I found myself liking this book without having any idea why. Many real-life Austen addicts panned this book and for very good reason. The protagonist, despite her “Austen addiction,” doesn’t seem to know much about Austen’s era and conducts herself appallingly while she’s there, making her hard to like; she’s dense when it comes to personal matters, the plot borders on bizarre, and the ending is even weirder. However, that being said, I couldn’t help but think that if I fell asleep one night and woke up in another woman’s body in Regency-era England, I’d probably be just as confused and upset about it and would conduct myself in a similar manner.

The plot was interesting, the characters were somewhat believable, and Rigler did a great job really bringing that time period to life for the reader. This is definitely, DEFINITELY not a book for those who like their Austen serious, but it’s a bit of a fun read for those who can suspend their disbelief for a fun little bit of Jane Austen fanfic. I’m actually very interested in reading Rigler’s follow-up book, Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict, in which Jane Mansfield wakes up in Courtney’s body in present-day L.A.

Imagine waking up and finding yourself stuck back in the era of Jane Austen. Such is the premise for this book and it is a slightly odd one. There is no time traveling, no scientific explination as to why this twenty first century woman is suddenly trapped in the body of a rich, Austen-era woman. Aside from such a shaky premise for a book, it is a somewhat interesting read. She obviously did a lot of historical research to accurately represent the novel with historical correctness. All the realities that are left out of the Austen novels are explored in this one: the foul smell of everyone's body odor, the realities of dealing with menstruation, and the truly limited scope of a single woman's life.

It's a very easy read, what I generally refer to as a "fluff" book. I did get a little tired of the constant running dialogue in her head. I felt like the book could have been shorter. Still, it made me realize that I need to read some Jane Austen this summer!