Heather Moll

Northanger Abbey happens to be my favorite of all of Austen’s novels. I know that makes me an outlier as most lean towards Pride and Prejudice. But no, the one I liked was one of her lessor known works. But that’s OK – we all like what we like.

This book, Loving Miss Tilney, was a relatively quick and very entertaining read. It contained all of the angst you would hope to find in a novel of this type with a very satisfying ending. I doubt I’m spoiling anything by writing that.

Our heroine has a strict, overbearing and demanding father who insists she marry a rich and titled man but she has found her love and he is neither. She is forbidden to marry the man she loves and afraid to disobey her father she agrees to marry a man she does not love.

But sometimes fate has a way of getting in the way of best laid plans. And True Love tends to win out, doesn’t it? At least in romance novels. As it should.

This was a very well written and very entertaining twist on familiar themes and characters. I was delightfully immersed in this world as Eleanor and Philip find their way towards each other and their happily ever after. It was a quick and immersive read.… (mehr)