I enjoyed this book..it was a fun read. I don't know much about Jane Austen's personal life and family, so this was a great fictional introduction to them. I enjoyed the intrigue that the author created and also was very impressed with the sprinkling of character inspirations for her novels from Austen's own life. I liked Anne as a narrator and of course I loved the way Jane was written. The one thing that was hard to follow was the generous number of characters, especially ones with similar names. I know that's realistic for the time, but if some of the extra children who were really not important or necessary to the story could have been left out (or left unnamed) that would have been nice. However, overall, a very creative historical fiction/nonfiction/mystery mix.