Lies Jane Austen Told Me by Julie Wright

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre: Romance
Content: Clean



Ever since Emma read Pride and Prejudice, she's been in love with Mr. Darcy and has regarded Jane Austen as the expert on all things romantic. So naturally when Emma falls for Blake Hampton and he invites her home to meet his parents, she is positive an engagement is in her future. After all, Blake is a single man in possession of a good fortune, and thus must be in want of a wife.

First off I want to say that you shouldn't read the blurb for this book if you don't want some spoilers. It gives away too much.

This book starts out with the main character, Emma going away for the weekend to her boyfriends home where she thinks she will meet his parents, but it doesn't go that way at all, and she ends up leaving after dumping him. Then she meets his brother and awkwardness ensues, for a while at least, until she really begins to have some feelings for him, despite trying really hard not to. I liked Emma for the most part, except for one annoying habit that I will mention in a minute. I also really liked Lucas, and I was rooting for them to get together despite, of course, the misunderstandings that occur.

There were a few things that bothered me, like the way the character Blake is written makes him seem like he has some identity issues. He isn't very consistent at all and thus he doesn't come off very believable. Then there is the thing that our main character Emma believes about Lucas throughout most of the book, even though it doesn't make any sense considering what she knows about him. It's a case of her thinking something and just deciding it's true. That annoyed me so much! I figured out what the situation was pretty easily, so Emma should have been able to as well, or she could have at least just asked Lucas what was going on there.

The little snippets from Jane Austen were a real nice touch in the book. I did find that Emma was a bit too much in dreamland about what kind of man she thought she would find based off her obsession with Jane Austen books. Then she got disgruntled and blamed it on Jane when she didn't. I mean come on, you aren't even living in the same time period! Overall this was a fun read and I do recommend it if you like reading clean contemporary romance.