Review: The Austen Playbook



Book Review: The Austen Playbook, by Lucy Parker, 5 stars




Freddy Carlton knows she should be focusing on her lines for The Austen Playbook, a live-action TV event where viewers choose the outcome of each scene, but her concentration’s been blown. The palatial estate housing the endeavor is now run by the rude (brilliant) critic who’s consistently slammed her performances of late. James “Griff” Ford-Griffin has a penchant for sarcasm, a majestic nose and all the sensitivity of a sledgehammer.

She can’t take her eyes off him.

Griff can hardly focus with a contagious joy fairy flitting about near him, especially when Freddy looks at him like that. His only concern right now should be on shutting down his younger brother’s well-intentioned (disastrous) schemes—or at the very least on the production (not this one) that might save his family home from the banks.

Instead all he can think of is soft skin and vibrant curls.

As he’s reluctantly dragged into her quest to rediscover her passion for the stage and Freddy is drawn into his research on a legendary theater star, the adage about appearances being deceiving proves abundantly true. It’s the unlikely start of something enormous…but a single revelation about the past could derail it all.



Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: April 2019

Mature content: yes

Review: I absolutely loved The Austen Playbook. It might just be my favorite book in this whole London Celebrities series by Lucy Parker (although I still haven't read books 3 and 5 yet...). 


 


Both Griff and Freddy make amazing characters and their dialogs are beyond witty. Add to that a great set of set of secondary characters, a very original house, a hint of suspense and some great romance - and you have a book you will not be able to put down. 

Though some characters from previous books (and I suspect from the next book too) make an appearance here and there, The Austen Playbook can be perfectly read as a stand alone - and I totally recommend it!

Happy readings!

The Book Worm, book blog

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