I just couldn't get into this one, unfortunately. The story didn't hook me as I thought it would even though the writing was enjoyable. Wish I could have loved this but maybe I just wasn't in quite the right mindset. I would still encourage others to read it and give it a shot!

Thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for letting me read an ARC in exchange for my honest review. This book was utterly charming. I am a big fan of Jane Austen's work, so this was a treat. I enjoyed all the characters, their stories and personalities. I also enjoyed the authors' narration style. I can not wait for these authors' next book. So lovely!

This was such a fun book! I had high expectations of it after a (frankly, practically perfect) synopsis and my expectations were definitely met. 

I loved so many things about this book - the tributes to Jane Austen and her influence on the world around us, the relationship between Rose and her best friend (as well as the beautiful love letter these two tell about how important internet friendships can be!), Rose's relationship with Aiden (swoon, I dare say), and how much wonderful history and facts were thrown in about Jane Austen herself. 

The time travel aspect was done very well, in my opinion, and I feel that the authors did a great job making Jane Austen in the 21st century totally believable (although her dialogue was sometimes stilted in a believable, yet occasionally annoying to read, kind of way).

The ending definitely felt a bit rushed, until I got to the very last page and realized it was totally a set up for a sequel - which I will definitely be picking up when the time comes!

I received an advance digital copy of this book from the authors, publisher and Netgalley.com. Thanks to all for the opportunity to read and review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

This book is a delight to read. The perfect combination of humor, romance, adventure and charm. Science fiction enough for sci fi fans, Austen enough to please an Janeite. All around fun.

5 out of 5 stars. Highly recommended.

I really enjoyed the Partucular Charm of Miss Jane Austen.  The book was a little different than I expected, but the writing was excellent. I always worry when a book is Co-written, but it was seemless and kept me hooked!


I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest and fair review.

Jane Austen has become trapped in modern day Bath and Rose Wallace is the only person who knows this. 

Rose is an avid Jane Austen fan and as she befriends Jane, she realises that she needs to help her to return to her own time or the world will never know her words and can you imagine a world without Mr Darcy?

I look forwrard to reading the next instalment.

Being a Jane Austen fan, I absolutely loved this book.  What could be better fun and reading than time travel and Jane Austen.  It made me want a time machine to travel back to meet Jane!

While I love Jane Austen (with P&P being one of my all-time favourite books), I was completely torn when reading this book. I’m not a huge fan of time slips so perhaps this was inevitable... 

First we have our heroine Rose who finally meets her online friend Morgan and they have some jolly japes in Bath at the Austen festival... then we have the parallel life where she’s forgotten everything except where she lives and oh, Miss Jane Austen just happens to have landed in her life!! 

Some elements were really lovely - the tension with Aiden and the blossoming relationship between Morgan and Rose’s boss, James. However I found elements rather cringeworthy and unrealistic... you really have to suspend reality.

That said it’s a fun read and definitely one for the fans of JA!!

I love this cover, I loved this story!  Fangirling over Harry Potter and Jane Austin? Sounds like every bookish person I know. But could you imagine your bookish work without Jane Austen? Roe Wallace is faced with this and it is an adventure. 


Synopsis: When a time travelling Jane Austen gets stuck in modern-day Bath it's up to avid Janeite Rose Wallace to save her… because she's the only one who knows that Jane exists!

Rose Wallace’s world revolves around all things Austen, and with the annual festival in Bath – and the arrival of dishy archaeologist, Dr Aiden Trevellyan – just around the corner, all is well with the world…

But then a mysterious woman who bears more than a passing resemblance to the great author moves in upstairs, and things take a disastrous turn. Rose’s new neighbour is Jane Austen, whose time travel adventure has been sabotaged by a mischievous dog, trapping her in the twenty-first century.

Rose’s life is instantly changed – new home, new job, new friends – but she’s the only one who seems to have noticed! To right the world around her, she will have to do whatever it takes to help Jane get back home to write Rose’s beloved novels. Because a world without Mr Darcy? It's not worth living in!

Whenever I see the name Jane Austen I just can't control myself and I have to have the book. In this case luckily I wasn't disappointed, this is such a gem. Is there going to be a sequel I wonder.

Thanks to Canelo for the ARC! I apologize that I wasn't able to publish my review before the publication, but I certainly will do now. This was a very enjoyable read and I'm looking forward to the next volume.

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright & Cass Grafton is exactly the kind of book any janeite could love. This book is filled with romance, the love of self, and family and friends. The authors use real locations and history to create perfect fantasy. The book is perfectly paced, right when you are desperate for something amazing to happen, it does.  The authors create clearly motivated and enjoyable characters. The particular charm of this book creates an amazing read, I highly recommend.

An interesting storyline about Jane Austen. Fantastic description of Bath and other locations connected to this author. I believe once reading this book, you'd want to visit Bath especially during the Jane Austen week and possibly to read or re-read her classics.
I really enjoyed the book and the main characters; it was an easy to read.

I loved the first line, it really drew me in. Although I don't usually read time-travel novels, the chick-litiness of it and the fact that it was a story about Jane Austen, meant that it was more or less compulsory. And what great fun it was too. 

The one thing that I found difficult to reconcile was that it was only Rose, out of everyone in the whole world, who remembered Jane; it's entirely possible, though, that I missed the bit in the novel that explained why her memories of everything Jane Austen remained intact. But once I just accepted it (isn't it odd that I had no problem with the time travel element itself?) I settled down to enjoy the ride, and what a thoroughly enjoyable one it was. What made the story so delightful for me was Jane herself, and all the references to her and her work. The romance was pretty good, too - a slow burner, but worth it!

Rose is an avid fan of Jane Austen and gets to relish in her love for the author living in modern-day Bath.  As the annual Jane Austen festival approaches, Rose realizes that the woman living above her is not a fan of the Regency era but is actually Jane Austen.  After a mishap, Jane become trapped in Rose’s time, but she hasn’t written any of her novels yet in her own time, which means no one have ever heard of Jane Austen! Rose finds herself in a different job, different home, with different friends, all because Austen’s work never brought her together with the people from her former life. Rose must figure out a way to get Jane Austen back where she belongs and get back to the life she misses so much.  This is a fun read for Jane Austen fans.

Friendship, Jane Austen, and… time travel? Oh my!
Have you ever wanted to befriend your favorite author? Live in the English country? This story takes place in the English town of Bath during the Jane Austen festival (which just so happens to be a real thing so count me in). Rose Wallace, a local and inn worker, is a, dare I say, huge fangirl of Jane Austen and helps make sure things run smoothly for the guests of the festival every year. However, there just so happens to be an unexpected guest who shows up  that may change the course of history.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started this book but I found myself hooked from the very first chapter. In the beginning, we follow the sort of average every day life of Rose during the Jane Austen festival. She’s busy making sure people have places to stay, especially a professor she admires (read as definitely has a crush on). On top of this, she has a long distance internet friend coming in for her and of course the festival. The last thing she ever expected on her plate was for Jane Austen herself to show up, much less show up and all of her works being suddenly nonexistent to the current world. Her name is unknown, nothing comes up on Google, and the museum that Rose lives under is non existent all thanks to a mysterious necklace. While I wish the romance was a bit more elaborated on, I do enjoy that friendship is a lot more prominent of a theme.

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(Not making assumptions that Jane Austen is the Doctor but if the shoe fits)

I don’t want to give too much away but this is a definite read if you like the adventure of time travel mixed with saving the legacy of your favorite classic author.

Jane Austen time travelling? This could be fun. The premise is great. Set in Bath, where Jane Austen lived for a while. She owns a cross pendant that allows her to time travel two hundred years to the future. Then something happens and she can't get back to her own time. The trouble is she has not yet written any of her novels. So we see how different the world would have been without her books.
The main character of this book is Rose Wallace. She's a dedicated Janeite and loves everything related to her books. Now she dedicates herself to the task of getting Jane back to her own time where she can resume writing.
The character I liked most was Morgan, Rose's best friend. She is supposed to be a comical character with her bad sense of direction, getting easily distracted and making friends with everybody. But I found her more endearing and loyal than funny. The romance part of the book was not very interesting to me. The story's time span is only few days, so nothing much has time to happen romantically.
The thing I could not understand was how Rose was the only one who could remember the old timeline where the Austen's books still existed. Or rather why she could not remember what had happened to her earlier in the timeline where Austen's books did not exist? And the subplot where Rose was supposed to be an excellent baker was suddenly discarded.
This is a nice book. I learned a lot about Jane Austen.
Thank you NetGalley and Canelo Escape for a copy of this book.

I love any story involving Jane Austen, though time traveling is not one I was expecting. I honestly can not imagine a world without Pride and Prejudice, the ripple effect is clearly enormous when this happens to Rose, whose life is all about Jane Austen.

On a mission to bring Jane back to the past, it's the start of quite the adventure. I loved all the historical facts, and titbits throughout this story. While familiar with her novels, I learned quite a lot about Jane Austen's life in general. 

To be completely fair, the romance wasn't really heavy here. Rose does have an interest in Dr. Aidan Trevellyan, an archaeologist, but since neither of them have any flirting skills, they somehow mostly end up talking about history.

Rose's best friend was there for comic relief. Morgan is quite a hoot, and here antics keep you entertained.

Personally for me, I would like to have seen more obvious romance, though I do believe the ladies writing this story went a bit more old school in that regard. The story is charming, with lovely characters, and I'm enough off a history buff to be interested in sequel novel. 

*I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

As I love Jane Austen, I couldn't resist this one. It's funny, well written and has well developed characters. The book is a page-turner for all the right reasons and I got a good laugh at times. I'm sure Jane Austen herself would approve of this book.

I approached this story cautiously, I’ve read books that involve the classics before and not enjoyed them, but I do love a time travel story so I decided to give it a go and I am glad I did! 

I loved this book, this story is fun, exciting, and a little strange but the characters are fantastic the storyline interesting and it’s beautifully written.