10 August 2012

Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale



            What Jane Austen fan wouldn’t want to spend a few days or longer vacationing in that era of romance and intrigue?
            If you enjoyed Shannon Hale’s first book, Austenland, you are sure to enjoy this one as well. Some of the Austenland characters are the same: Mrs. Wattlesbrook, Captain Andrews, Miss Charming, and Sir John. There are also many new characters to add twists and turns to the plot, including the new heroine, Mrs. Cordial.
            This time Pembrook Park is stuck in the midst of a murder mystery: 21 nuns mysteriously drop dead with no marks on their bodies and a dead body is found in a secret room. Are these murders real, or are they a part of the Austenland experience. Charlotte Cordial must find the truth.
            Shannon Hale does a really good job on this Austenland sequel. The story doesn’t really have the feel of a sequel and the reader need not read the first Austenland to enjoy the second.

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