If you are an Austen fan, run, do not walk, away from this book as fast as you can. If you are a fan of historical fiction with a romantic flavor, go read Amanda Quick and her compatriots. If you want a bizarre mishmash of Austen, time travel, and bad historical romance, why, you've found the right book. The first 160 pages read like any other Austen wannabe author, with a sprinkling of Austen names and locales. (The great Jane herself is dragged in as a character whose only dialog is quotes from her novels.) Then the author gleefully leaps into a weird mix of Regency soap opera, copious bedroom scenes, strident social commentary, and Shakespearean reference. I read about 200 pages and then leafed dolefully through the rest. Then I went and read Sense and Sensibility to take away the horrid aftertaste of an hour with this complete train wreck of a novel. The author gets 1/2 a star for a cute idea. ( )

I enjoy historical fiction, and this book was no exception. Jane Austen plays less of a role than I had originally expected. I was interested in the descriptions of the customs, fashions, and class differences of this time period, and found the book rich with detail. I thought the ending was a bit "convenient," but enjoyed the story overall nonetheless. ( )

Fun time travel book. Our idiotic (no, really, her behavior is simply incomprehensibly stupid throughout the book) heroine is transported, in the middle of an audition for a Broadway play about Jane Austen, back to... Jane Austen's England! Where she proceeds to do very stupid things, like steal a piece of fruit (and be arrested), have sex and get pregnant when she's unmarried ('cause the Georgians, they love that), and generally act like she expects everyone to welcome 21st-century thought. Not the sharpest quill in the stand, she. But the book itself was cute (if surprisingly full of very NC17 [tantric!!!!] het sex!), although the surprise 'revelation' at the end was anything but. Anyone who hadn't seen that coming, well, is probably very sympathetic to Our Heroine. It was really fun, though, the book. ( )

A modern Austen-lover accidentally travels in time back to Bath in 1801. There were parts of this that were interesting. I enjoyed the descriptions of some of the more negative aspects of the Georgian period. The main plot, though, left a lot to be desired. ( )

Mix of Jane Austen and Diana Gabaldon though not as successful as either of them.

Modern day actress C. J. Welles finds that a prop door on the stage where she is playing Jane Austen leads her back to Jane Austen's England. There through a series of events, sometimes outlandish, sometimes not, she meets the real Jane Austen, falls in love, and finds her true life.

Some of the events seem to have arisen from the author's research on the topic more than need of the story, but still an engaging read. ( )