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Book 888: A Dashwood of Sense and Sensibility (Love, Austen #6) – Anyta Sunday

Book cover of "A Dashwood of Sense and Sensibility" with Amazon Affiliate linkThis wasn’t the perfect ending to Sunday’s Love, Austen retellings, but it was a damn good one. Like the last five there was no doubt I would accept the ARC when it came in (and I was a little worried when I didn’t see it even though its publication date was fast approaching)!*

We met Noah and Zach Dashwood in one of the previous novels (I believe Finley Embraces Heart and Home) and I have to assume we met Brandy/Brandon and Wade at some point too, but no clue honestly. For some reason, I guess because the names were great cognates like some of the other books, it took me way too long to remember who Zach and Noah were compared to Elinor and Marianne from the OG Sense and Sensibility. Once I got that sorted, I was all set.

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Book 874: Elliot, Song of the Soulmate (Love, Austen #5) – Anyta Sunday

Book cover of "Elliot, Song of the Soulmate" with Amazon Affiliate linkOMG ya’ll, Anyta Sunday is going to finish her Love, Austen series!!! Can you tell I’m still bitter about the Austen Project? I mean who does four books and then just STOPS!?! Like WT-actual-F!? When this  review opportunity came in, it was an automatic yes.* I just had to wait for them to get me the actual ARC so I could start it and boy was I impatient!

I didn’t realize it at the time, but we actually met both characters in this novel in the last book, Finley Embraces Heart and Home, at their end of term/secondary school party. I may (or may not) have squealed a little when I connected those dots this book.

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Book 867: Finley Embraces Heart and Home (Love, Austen #4) – Anyta Sunday

Book cover of "Finley Embraces Heart and Home" with Amazon Affiliate linkThis book felt different from the other three books in Anyta Sunday’s Love, Austen series. I was always going to read it and said yes as soon as the review opportunity came in, but it just felt different.*

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I think it has to do with the fact that we spend so much more time with Finley and Ethan growing up than we spent with anyone else in the series. All the other books (Emerett Has Never Been in LoveCameron Wants to Be a Hero, and Bennet, Pride before the Fall) were your more typical whirlwind type romances: sparks fly, a couple of weeks or months past, boom happily ever after.

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Book 828: Bennet, Pride Before the Fall (Love, Austen #3) – Anyta Sunday

Book cover of "Bennet, Pride before the Fall" with Amazon Affiliate linkOf course, the second I received the email for this one from Gay Romance Reviews I filled out the form for a review copy 😀 No questions asked. And this was on top of already having some hesitations with Darcy being the dad of Henry from the Northanger Abbey retelling Cameron Wants to be a Hero.

As the Love, Austen series moves along I feel like Sunday is getting further and further away from the source material. This is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to an Austen retelling, but I’ve definitely noted people being less enthusiastic in their reviews.

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Book 813: Cameron Wants to be a Hero (Love, Austen #2) – Anyta Sunday

Book cover of "Cameron Wants to Be a Hero" with Amazon Affiliate linkI was always going to read these. From the second I found out about them from Gay Romance Reviews or when I randomly stumbled across them at some future date.*  With a description like, “It’s Northanger Abbey, complete with a neo-gothic mansion and charming misunderstandings. But contemporary. And gay.”, hell yes I was going to read them.

Both this and Emerett Has Never Been in Love, were adorable retellings of Austen’s works. I’m a little concerned Sunday will abandon the project before she gets to Mansfield Park (even though I SWEAR we met the characters) or Persuasion, like it seems most do (stupid Marvel and Austen Project).

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