“I’ve heard of sorts of things about a kiss (melting, firework, music), but no one ever told me it’s a conversation: asking, accepting, deciding, inviting, giving… Questions posed and answered.” (93) Reay also did a wonderful job writing about kissing and the intimacy experienced in kissing without having to go any further, which I can appreciate, Sam, and many of the minor characters in this novel, had more depth than the main characters in The Austen Escape. Having the story from her perspective in writing worked a lot better than I felt The Austen Escape did. What I enjoyed most about this book was Reay’s focus on the main character, Sam Moore. I’ll read the other’s books in her oeuvre that are Austen/Brontë connected because they’re such quick reads, but I’m not sure I’ll follow her into the future. Reay does a great job weaving in the stories and characters from Austen’s works but doesn’t necessarily use them as frameworks or even plot outlines. I think they’d be more accurately described as inspired by Austen rather than the traditional fan-fiction/fanfiction. I’m still not sure where to categorize this for my own references. That being said, I know there’s a HUGE market for both clean romance AND Christina fiction, so I can’t really fault it too much because it was just a little too preachy for me at some points. It could’ve been A LOT worse, but it was just enough to start to put me off toward the end of the novel. This book is what I was worried of when I found out these were categorized under clean romance and Christian fiction.
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