I liked this book pretty well. It is carefully written, and the characters act like themselves, as Austen would have imagined them. The style is not, of course, quite like Austen's, but it is a tolerable facsimile. The plot is interesting, but slow in the beginning, picks up a little in the middle, then moves quickly at the end. I enjoyed reading it, but I wasn't blown away.

There is a very contrived mention of the Elliots (from Persuasion) and of the Knightleys (from Emma) that made me roll my eyes, but we never actually meet those characters.