Jane Bites Back (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Thomas Ford, Katherine Kellgren, Audible Studios Books
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Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves, but now it's because she's the owner of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy college town in Upstate New York. Every day she watches her novels fly off the shelves along with dozens of unauthorized sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations. Jane may be undead, but her books have taken on a life of their own. To make matters worse, the manuscript she finished just before being turned into a vampire has been rejected by publishers116 times. Jane longs to let the world know who she is, but when a sudden twist of fate thrusts her back into the spotlight, she must hide her real identity and fend off a dark man from her past while juggling two modern suitors.
Will the inimitable Jane Austen be able to keep her cool in this comedy of manners, or will she show everyone what a woman with a sharp wit and an even sharper set of fangs can do?
Jane Bites Back (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Thomas Ford, Katherine Kellgren, Audible Studios Books
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Jane Bites Back (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Thomas Ford, Katherine Kellgren, Audible Studios Books Reviews
One day I was desperate for something, anything to read. I have a severe reading addiction. I picked this up, thinking how silly it looked. I mean, really this vampire craze has just gotten out of hand and now someone has gone after Jane Austen. Is nothing sacred anymore? I thought I'd give it a shot, it was on the clearance rack, I was desperate and I love Jane Austen.
Do you remember the last time you read a book and literally laughed out loud? Michael Thomas Ford does not in any capacity take himself too seriously. He knows this isn't the great literature, it's fluff! It's a delightful book that leaves you craving more. If this were a food it would be something that looks dull and unappatizing but with one bite you're hooked! It's sweet but with very little substance. It's an easy read and I got through it pretty quickly, much to my dismay. Like a that fully sweet dessert, you get through it too quickly and can't wait to get more.
It is also a gift to nerdy readers everywhere. I've bought a copy for both my nerdy sisters. I've lent my copy to my best friends and closest literary geeks. Every time I have put this book in a girlfriends hand she groans but within a few days I get a call from them thanking me for forcing them to read it because they loved it that much.
Read it!
I read Mr Darcy Vampyre and decided I would never read another supernatural/Austen novel, but when I read the synopsis for Jane Bites Back, I just had to read it. In this novel, it's not one of Austen's characters who has been turned into a blood sucker, but Jane Austen herself.
Jane Bites Back not only features Jane Austen herself, but also a few other literary figures. Jane walks amongst us as Jane Fairfax, owner of a small book store. Ironically, her friend and co-worker Lucy is a hardcore Austen fan, but has no idea that her favorite author signs her pay checks. Jane lives a pretty low key life until she publishes a new novel after 200 years. Her new novel, Constance, is an instant hit but leads to many complications in her personal life and her career.
Not only does Jane have to deal with someone attempting to sabotage her career, but she also has to put up with the advances of the undead Lord Byron, who has returned to reclaim Jane's affection after "turning her". Jane, however, is dealing with her feelings for the handsome contractor, Walter.
I disagree with the reviewers who claim this novel was not funny. I literally laughed out loud throughout the novel. I especially loved the part where Jane Austen and Lord Byron were bickering over Wikipedia. LOL! The author obviously has one heck of a sense of humor, I felt the ending a was a little abrupt until I realized there will be a sequel. I never thought that I would be a fan of a Austen/vampire series, but this book made me an instant fan! Five stars!
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Two hundred years ago, Jane Austen was turned into a vampire and ever since, she has been hiding among humans under many names, her current one being Jane Fairfax as she lives in New York and owns an independent bookstore called Flyleaf Books. She has spent the time since her "death" to try and get her final novel Constance published, only for it to be rejected every time until one house in the present time finally accepts it. Just when that happens, the vampire that turned Jane arrives in town to see her and she starts to develop some boy problems. Walter, the guy who fixes up homes for a living, wouldn't mind fixing her heart and she's got maybe just a teeny tiny crush on her new editor. Accusations come forth that she plagiarised someone in her novel and sooner or later, all this pressure just might make poor Jane's head explode.
The premise was one of the most grabbing I've seen in recent months. A satire on the industry of Austen with a vampire Jane Austen that is trying to get a book published and defends it when a blogger calls it plagiarized? Sign me up! Unfortunately, there was a large gap between what I was expecting to read and the actual content of the novel. My imagination gave this book too much hype and it was an underwhelming read, though it would not have been a great novel for me even without the hype.
I should have suspected this would be the case from the mention of the dark guy from her past and two modern suitors, but I didn't realize how much of the book would be concentrated on Jane's romantic dilemmas. What did I expect? A satire of the Austen industry where a vampire Jane Austen is trying to get her book published, has to fight back when someone accuses her of plagiarism, and oh yeah, has some guy problems. It was more along the lines of Jane has guy problems and oh yeah, is trying to get a novel published and gets accused of plagiarism on it. The satire part is mostly confined to the first few pages and less than five one or two line reappearances in the rest of the novel. I kind of wanted a break from so much romance after reading a little too much bad or bland romance, but it turned out that I read more of it with this novel.
Almost every time something comes along that might distract from Jane's guy problems, something else comes along to get rid of it or the problems come to her. The blogger that accuses Jane of plagiarism? Yeah, that problem is eliminated shortly after it arrives. No more plagiarism claims. Traveling away from the boys? One of them comes to her! The romance overtakes the plot and makes what could have been a fantastic book if there had been less lovey-dovey nonsense a so-so read.
There isn't much else to say about this novel. It was not particularly good, but there was nothing that annoyed me other than the lack of a few things I would have liked to have seen in the story that the back cover made me think might be there. There were a few things I enjoyed, like how the novel took the war between Austen and the Brontes to a whole new level and Jane's wit, but otherwise, there was little that stood out to me. I wanted to put the novel down at one point because of Byron's monstrously creepy behavior (any pun that might be there may or may not be intended) but then I realized that for once, it was not being romanticized and it became a little more bearable.
Maybe I'm the problem for once. After reading this, I suppose that a read of at least one of Austen's novels and some knowledge of her would be required to fully enjoy the novel. I know very little about Jane Austen and I have never read any of her books (even though I plan to within the next year; it's on my list). Reading without that knowledge behind me could have made me miss the fun of the novel and may do the same to other readers.
Ultimately, this novel was underwhelming for me in some unexplainable way. Considering how interested I was in the premise, this is sad. Perhaps I should have known due to the genre of this book that Jane would be too busy trying to fix her Leaky Faucet of Boy Problems to unfreeze the pipeline above her that the plot was coming from. This is more about Jane Austen's boy troubles as a vampire than anything else. Anyone looking for more may get little doses of it, but it doesn't get enough focus to matter. Will I pick up the sequel Jane Goes Batty when it comes out in February 2011? No.
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