Item: The Jane Austen Book Club
Rating: 1.00
Author: constellationoftomes

by Karen Joy Fowler

Six people, five women and a man, meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love?

I didn't like The Jane Austen Book Club at ALL.

I expected this book to be a tribute to Jane Austen, her life and her novels and for there to be great character development and relationships that are influenced by Jane Austen and her novels.

Instead, I ended up getting flashbacks from six characters that I formed NO connection with and present-day friendships and relationships that I couldn't care less about. Everything in this book is extremely shallow.

After finishing this book, I still don't understand what it's purpose is...

The Jane Austen Book Club is putdownable, forgettable and uninteresting.

Reading updates

1 August, 2016: Started reading

13 August, 2016: Finished reading

13 August, 2016: Reviewed