Lost in Austen
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Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines—a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcome Name: Elizabeth Bennet. Mission: To marry both prudently and for love. How? It's entirely up to the reader. The journey begins in Pride and Prejudice but quickly takes off on a whimsical Austen adventure of the reader's own creation. A series of choices leads the reader into the plots and romances of Austen's other works. Choosing to walk home from Netherfield Hall means falling into Sense and Sensibility and the infatuating spell of Mr. Willoughby. Accepting an invitation to Bath leads to Northanger Abbey and the beguiling Henry Tilney. And just where will Emma's Mr. Knightley fit in to the quest for a worthy husband? It's all up to the reader. A labyrinth of love and lies, scandals and scoundrels, misfortunes and marriages, Lost in Austen will delight and challenge any Austen lover.
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This is a choose-your-own-adventure book based on Pride and Prejudice, with other Jane Austen novels worked into the adventures. At first, I was pretty annoyed by it. If you follow the obvious choices that lead down the true storyline of P&P, then it is just a lesser version of that novel. Some of the choices (do you take the path to the left or to the right?) end up in silly violent deaths of some of the characters. After working my way through the book once, I went back and read it cover to cover, so I could read all of the different turns and discovered that the places where the book is slightly fun is in the imaginings of Elizabeth Bennet encountering characters and storylines from other Austen novels. Of course, those imaginings are also ridiculous, because Elizabeth would never act like Marianne from Sense and Sensibility. In the end, I enjoyed this book a little, but I'll just stick with the original versions in the future.
