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Double Trouble for Lizzy
We’re librarians … so …
We’ll catalogue you … yeah …
Before we crush you … uh huh…
That’s how we rolllllllllll … YEAH!”
Tourist season has begun and the quirky Janeite guests, including a surprisingly raucous band of librarians, have arrived at the elegant Regency Resort, doubling both the laughs and the troubles for the character players at the Austen-themed vacation spot lovingly dubbed "Camp Jane." . Not only must Maggie (Lizzy Bennet) unexpectedly play two of Austen’s favorite fictional characters but behind the scenes, she must also decide between two real-life suitors, the handsome, brooding Will (Mr. Darcy) or her fun-loving friend, Henry (Mr. Tilney.) With a mystery afoot at gothic Northanger Abbey that puts Maggie in real peril, can the castmates work together to sort out fact from fiction before it’s too late?
We’ll catalogue you … yeah …
Before we crush you … uh huh…
That’s how we rolllllllllll … YEAH!”
Tourist season has begun and the quirky Janeite guests, including a surprisingly raucous band of librarians, have arrived at the elegant Regency Resort, doubling both the laughs and the troubles for the character players at the Austen-themed vacation spot lovingly dubbed "Camp Jane." . Not only must Maggie (Lizzy Bennet) unexpectedly play two of Austen’s favorite fictional characters but behind the scenes, she must also decide between two real-life suitors, the handsome, brooding Will (Mr. Darcy) or her fun-loving friend, Henry (Mr. Tilney.) With a mystery afoot at gothic Northanger Abbey that puts Maggie in real peril, can the castmates work together to sort out fact from fiction before it’s too late?
312 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 3, 2022
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Susan Andrews
2 books7 followersSusan Andrews is a lover of classic humor including Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and The Dick Van Dyke Show. After thirty years in Oklahoma as an educator for a child/teen psychiatric hospital, she, perhaps understandably, moved to an island in the Caribbean after retirement. She lives in Roatan, Honduras with her husband Mike, also a writer and a super picky book editor, who inexplicably, but in this case fortuitously, finds joy in weeding comma splices out of perfectly good copy.
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June 15, 2022
Once again, Susan Andrews puts the “campy” in Camp Jane! Her modern-day series revolves around a group of Jane Austen story reenacters who have been hired for the summer to work at the Regency Resort in upstate New York, lovingly dubbed “Camp Jane” by the Jane Austen enthusiasts who visit every year.
Maggie Argyle has been assigned to play our beloved Lizzy Bennet, but just after the start of her storyline, she finds out that she and her co-actor Jessi, who plays Jane Bennet, are also required to step in as understudies for Marianne and Elinor Dashwood, when the girls who play them get into a nasty patch of poison ivy. This sets the stage for Maggie (subbing as Marianne) and Jessi (subbing as Elinor) to interact with the cast of Sense and Sensibility. Marianne takes an immediate dislike to the actor playing the smarmy Willoughby, but are her sensibilities being colored by his performance of the notorious rake, or is the used-car salesman-turned-actor pulling a bait and switch on his audience?
Maggie and her friends also get to experience a tour of the spooky gothic mansion Northanger Abbey, complete with its nighttime hedge maze, a truly frightening General Tilney, and a ghost from the past whose presence still haunts Camp Jane.
As mysterious events begin to unfold around the abbey and the old chapel nearby, it’s up to Maggie and her fellow LagGard gang, with the help of an enthusiastic troupe of librarians, to unearth the secrets of the past and unmask the real villains that are holding Camp Jane and its actors captive.
This was a super fun story to read! Lots of comedy and lots of great little moments for Jane Austen superfans like myself. I really enjoyed seeing some cameos of real-life Jane Austen fans who I know appear as vital characters in the story (and I may or may not have a hidden cameo character somewhere too!).
I thoroughly loved the first Camp Jane book, and the second book did not disappoint either! Can’t wait for the next installment of this series. After all, at Camp Jane, summer has only just begun.
Maggie Argyle has been assigned to play our beloved Lizzy Bennet, but just after the start of her storyline, she finds out that she and her co-actor Jessi, who plays Jane Bennet, are also required to step in as understudies for Marianne and Elinor Dashwood, when the girls who play them get into a nasty patch of poison ivy. This sets the stage for Maggie (subbing as Marianne) and Jessi (subbing as Elinor) to interact with the cast of Sense and Sensibility. Marianne takes an immediate dislike to the actor playing the smarmy Willoughby, but are her sensibilities being colored by his performance of the notorious rake, or is the used-car salesman-turned-actor pulling a bait and switch on his audience?
Maggie and her friends also get to experience a tour of the spooky gothic mansion Northanger Abbey, complete with its nighttime hedge maze, a truly frightening General Tilney, and a ghost from the past whose presence still haunts Camp Jane.
As mysterious events begin to unfold around the abbey and the old chapel nearby, it’s up to Maggie and her fellow LagGard gang, with the help of an enthusiastic troupe of librarians, to unearth the secrets of the past and unmask the real villains that are holding Camp Jane and its actors captive.
This was a super fun story to read! Lots of comedy and lots of great little moments for Jane Austen superfans like myself. I really enjoyed seeing some cameos of real-life Jane Austen fans who I know appear as vital characters in the story (and I may or may not have a hidden cameo character somewhere too!).
I thoroughly loved the first Camp Jane book, and the second book did not disappoint either! Can’t wait for the next installment of this series. After all, at Camp Jane, summer has only just begun.
August 12, 2022
A delightful read! The characters we met in the first Camp Jane novel continue their adventures and relationships in this second novel. Andrews has created a fun community, one I wish I could visit in person for a few weeks.
January 1, 2024
Enjoyable read
Once again I really enjoyed Susan Andrew's writing. She puts so many details into her characters and setting that while reading I truly can place myself in the scene. And the mystery woven in added to the enjoyment as well.
Once again I really enjoyed Susan Andrew's writing. She puts so many details into her characters and setting that while reading I truly can place myself in the scene. And the mystery woven in added to the enjoyment as well.
November 15, 2023
Camp Jane II
My return to Camp Jane was a delight, and a continuation of the first book, namely the following weeks after the first book, which followed the first week or two of our beloved LaGGuard groups visit to Camp Jane.
This time we followed a drama which took place at Northanger Abbey, where a treasure “apparently” is hidden, or so an old Camp Jane-family member tells. And we are also presented to a new enemy, or dastard.
Further we again follow Lizzie and her romance entanglement, and personally I was torn, but in the end, I believe I got it as I wished *smirks*
Many of the regency characters have won my heart through the first two books, both from the P&P cast, S&S, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion casts where the romances and friendships are blooming between them all. Though there have been some drama which made me roll my eyes, and some characters who was disliked, but all in all the drama throughout the story worked and made it an unexpected but enjoyable experience.
*Hint, hint* If you recall the background of Camp Jane, it makes the end result all the sweeter. And as Miss Austen herself ended her books, with the weddings and courtships of the characters, and so does the LaGGuards in Camp Jane, and of course there was also a surprise.
My return to Camp Jane was a delight, and a continuation of the first book, namely the following weeks after the first book, which followed the first week or two of our beloved LaGGuard groups visit to Camp Jane.
This time we followed a drama which took place at Northanger Abbey, where a treasure “apparently” is hidden, or so an old Camp Jane-family member tells. And we are also presented to a new enemy, or dastard.
Further we again follow Lizzie and her romance entanglement, and personally I was torn, but in the end, I believe I got it as I wished *smirks*
Many of the regency characters have won my heart through the first two books, both from the P&P cast, S&S, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion casts where the romances and friendships are blooming between them all. Though there have been some drama which made me roll my eyes, and some characters who was disliked, but all in all the drama throughout the story worked and made it an unexpected but enjoyable experience.
*Hint, hint* If you recall the background of Camp Jane, it makes the end result all the sweeter. And as Miss Austen herself ended her books, with the weddings and courtships of the characters, and so does the LaGGuards in Camp Jane, and of course there was also a surprise.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 7, 2023
Just like the first in the series, this book was full of wit and humor, with all the Austen references a Janeite could hope for, and as before there’s a delightful mystery that Catherine Moreland would absolutely love. If you love a book with some nice romantic pings and lots of quippy humor, this one is for you.
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