Summer reading roundup
Dear Readers,
I promised a roundup of all the books I read this summer while on my vacation (and a few before and after). One series I really enjoyed is Kendra E. Ardnek’s The Austen Fairy Tales. I read 4 out of the 6 books in the series and plan to read the last 2 soon. Each book is based on one of the books by Jane Austen, but the names have been changed and the storylines also melded with a classic fairy tale. The books all share the same fairy tale universe with recurring characters, so some characters are analogous to more than one Jane Austen character, depending on which book they are in. Each book has a “who’s who” guide at the beginning so you can match the characters with their respective Austen counterparts, and later books also include a family tree.
My summer library reads were Claudia Gray’s mystery novels The Murder of Mr. Wickham and The Late Mrs. Willoughby. Both were excellently written and take place in a connected Austen universe featuring many of our favorite characters. The protagonists of the two books are Jonathan Darcy, the grown son of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Juliet Tilney, the debutant daughter of Henry and Catherine Tilney, who team up to solve the murders.
As I’m currently in the middle of writing the first book of my clean contemporary rom-com series, I read several books in that genre. So Not My Boss Crush and Fake Married to My Boss were both quick, fun and easy reads. I also enjoyed some modern Austenesque stories in this genre, Persuading the Captain, Love and War in Woodhouse Hall, Dating Mr. Darcy, and Her Modern Day Mr. Darcy. Lastly, on one of the shorter legs our our airplane journey, I read A Reason to Hope, a Regency JAFF story by Christie Capps, the short-story pen name of J. Dawn King.
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Happy reading,
Amanda Kai
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