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Jane Austen, Time Traveler
Bridgerton
meets Beach Read when Jane Austen leaps into the future, meets her handsome 21st century superfan and joins a time traveling team.
Jane Austen, a writer of romance novels, faces a terrible publishing rejection. At the same time, she gets an alarming proposal of marriage. How can she escape her fate? Who can save the despairing Jane? Through his Golden Net of Time, time traveler George St. James sees his favorite author in distress.
He travels to 1802 to persuade Jane that she has a glorious future. Claiming to be an interested publisher, he offers to take her to his office to sign a publishing contract. That office turns out to be in 2024. And it's not an office, but a bookstore in Pasadena, California where Jane Austen fans gather.
Jane greets her club only to find that superfans can be super picky. While she aspires to publication, secretly, Jane hopes even more for romance. Perhaps with a tall, blue-eyed superfan named Will.
Her “publisher” had hoped to inspire Jane’s writing by showing her that success awaits her. But it’s Jane who rewrites her own future. History may have to save itself …
“Jane Austen comes alive in a witty, time-bending romance.” “Simply amazing!”
Jane Austen, a writer of romance novels, faces a terrible publishing rejection. At the same time, she gets an alarming proposal of marriage. How can she escape her fate? Who can save the despairing Jane? Through his Golden Net of Time, time traveler George St. James sees his favorite author in distress.
He travels to 1802 to persuade Jane that she has a glorious future. Claiming to be an interested publisher, he offers to take her to his office to sign a publishing contract. That office turns out to be in 2024. And it's not an office, but a bookstore in Pasadena, California where Jane Austen fans gather.
Jane greets her club only to find that superfans can be super picky. While she aspires to publication, secretly, Jane hopes even more for romance. Perhaps with a tall, blue-eyed superfan named Will.
Her “publisher” had hoped to inspire Jane’s writing by showing her that success awaits her. But it’s Jane who rewrites her own future. History may have to save itself …
“Jane Austen comes alive in a witty, time-bending romance.” “Simply amazing!”
- GenresTime TravelRomance
284 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 27, 2022
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About the author
Rachel Dacus
14 books486 followersRachel Dacus writes time travel and women's fiction with a supernatural twist. She is the author of seven novels and four poetry collections. Her Timegathering series has been called a "unique and spellbinding twist to the time-traveling adventure, perfect for fans of Susanna Kearsley and Diana Gabaldon." Rachel lives in Northern California with her architect husband and Silky Terrier. She is a member of the Women's Fiction Writers Association.
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April 6, 2023
Just when Jane Austen is considering giving up her writing career forever she gets an opportunity of a lifetime!
Her father gave her book to a publisher who rejects it! She is so devastated she has decided to accept a proposal to someone she doesn't love and never write again!
I have always sympathized with her lonely life. Never married as she refused the only proposal she ever received. Dying so young in her forties. Such a tragedy for the literary world
But this incredible time travel adventure repairs her sad life and projects Jane Austen into a far away future of 2024!
Jane's book being rejected by a prominent publisher has far reaching implications
A man in 2024 has the ability to see historic wrongs before they become permanent.
George St James is a time traveler and can see that Jane Austen has lost her confidence and ambition. He can't let this happen. After all what would the world be without Jane Austen! She encouraged women's rights in her time.
So George decides to pay her a visit!
From there he has to convince her he can get her books published. His plan involves her traveling to the future so she can see how very popular her many books have become to hundreds of thousands of people.
Adventurous Jane jumps at the chance to go the future. Like Elizabeth Bennet her courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate her!
Such wonderful visions await her in California. She is thrilled with all the discoveries of the new world. Especially when going to a bookstore and seeing massive displays of her books!
George takes her to a meeting of her Super Jane Austen Fan Club and there she meets the Super Fan who created the club in her honor. Will has every volume of her works. He cannot wait to meet her. George has only told him her real identity.
Everyone else thinks she is there to portray Austen and answer fan questions about her books. Shes in over her head as many of the books she hasn't written yet! But she gets through it well.
Everything is off the charts when she meets Will. Their story is so wonderfully told with such care and love it is worth getting to the end.
Please Jaff readers don't miss this wonderful story!
Her father gave her book to a publisher who rejects it! She is so devastated she has decided to accept a proposal to someone she doesn't love and never write again!
I have always sympathized with her lonely life. Never married as she refused the only proposal she ever received. Dying so young in her forties. Such a tragedy for the literary world
But this incredible time travel adventure repairs her sad life and projects Jane Austen into a far away future of 2024!
Jane's book being rejected by a prominent publisher has far reaching implications
A man in 2024 has the ability to see historic wrongs before they become permanent.
George St James is a time traveler and can see that Jane Austen has lost her confidence and ambition. He can't let this happen. After all what would the world be without Jane Austen! She encouraged women's rights in her time.
So George decides to pay her a visit!
From there he has to convince her he can get her books published. His plan involves her traveling to the future so she can see how very popular her many books have become to hundreds of thousands of people.
Adventurous Jane jumps at the chance to go the future. Like Elizabeth Bennet her courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate her!
Such wonderful visions await her in California. She is thrilled with all the discoveries of the new world. Especially when going to a bookstore and seeing massive displays of her books!
George takes her to a meeting of her Super Jane Austen Fan Club and there she meets the Super Fan who created the club in her honor. Will has every volume of her works. He cannot wait to meet her. George has only told him her real identity.
Everyone else thinks she is there to portray Austen and answer fan questions about her books. Shes in over her head as many of the books she hasn't written yet! But she gets through it well.
Everything is off the charts when she meets Will. Their story is so wonderfully told with such care and love it is worth getting to the end.
Please Jaff readers don't miss this wonderful story!
February 23, 2023
Author Rachel Dacus has authored a series of books tied together by time travelers who are committed to “fixing” errors in history and combating a group called the Optimalists who are equally committed to changing history to further their own agenda.
In the future in 2087, George, a time traveler, notices a blip on the Golden Net, a futuristic version of the worldwide web, and traces it to Jane Austen, two centuries earlier, whose novel has been rejected. This causes her acute distress plus the realization that, without the income from a book, she is doomed to a loveless marriage. George fears that the Optimalists are wiping out Jane Austen to quell the feminist movement at its onset. To combat her feelings of despair, he takes her to 2024 in Pasadena, California, to show her the effect her works have had on readers. What he doesn’t count on is the feistiness of Ms. Austen who not only manages to deal with the changes from her time to the present but falls in love with her number one fan, Will. She arranges her own HEA in a manner befitting an enlightened woman.
Jane Austen, Time Traveler is a fun read, especially Jane’s reaction to all the changes as she shifts in time, such as cars, indoor plumbing, cell phones, and Uber. She’d consider the changes magic, but “magic only exists to get wayward boy to eat their porridge.”
In the future in 2087, George, a time traveler, notices a blip on the Golden Net, a futuristic version of the worldwide web, and traces it to Jane Austen, two centuries earlier, whose novel has been rejected. This causes her acute distress plus the realization that, without the income from a book, she is doomed to a loveless marriage. George fears that the Optimalists are wiping out Jane Austen to quell the feminist movement at its onset. To combat her feelings of despair, he takes her to 2024 in Pasadena, California, to show her the effect her works have had on readers. What he doesn’t count on is the feistiness of Ms. Austen who not only manages to deal with the changes from her time to the present but falls in love with her number one fan, Will. She arranges her own HEA in a manner befitting an enlightened woman.
Jane Austen, Time Traveler is a fun read, especially Jane’s reaction to all the changes as she shifts in time, such as cars, indoor plumbing, cell phones, and Uber. She’d consider the changes magic, but “magic only exists to get wayward boy to eat their porridge.”
September 17, 2024
Love it when historical figures get to find love in other times! Normal life and relationship issues, compounded by historical needs. A fun, clean, slow burn romance that also adds to other books!
December 19, 2022
So many shocks!
Automobiles replacing carriages and aeroplanes in addition to trains are one thing, as Jane would be used to the older items in her own time. But cell phones, electricity, pool noodles, underground water pipes? Especially since she thinks that ‘magic only exists to get wayward boy to eat their porridge.’
I doubt people travelling into any future from the late 1800’s would dress immodestly their first time out, but at least Jane did choose a long skirt (whew!). I’ll never be able to look at ankles the same way…
Since Jane was a reader, she had some idea of the exotic foods that are so common for us nowadays.
‘I believe the Margarita Punch is affecting my head in a most pleasant way.’ Now I feel like ordering Mexican for lunch and mixing up some sort of tequila cocktail (don’t tell Hubby that Jane’s making me daydrink).
The author incorporated many parts of Jane’s works into this story, some very subtly. Even though it was easy to just jump into book #4, I totally need to catch up with the previous books.
I wanna join the Time Team – where do I sign up?
Automobiles replacing carriages and aeroplanes in addition to trains are one thing, as Jane would be used to the older items in her own time. But cell phones, electricity, pool noodles, underground water pipes? Especially since she thinks that ‘magic only exists to get wayward boy to eat their porridge.’
I doubt people travelling into any future from the late 1800’s would dress immodestly their first time out, but at least Jane did choose a long skirt (whew!). I’ll never be able to look at ankles the same way…
Since Jane was a reader, she had some idea of the exotic foods that are so common for us nowadays.
‘I believe the Margarita Punch is affecting my head in a most pleasant way.’ Now I feel like ordering Mexican for lunch and mixing up some sort of tequila cocktail (don’t tell Hubby that Jane’s making me daydrink).
The author incorporated many parts of Jane’s works into this story, some very subtly. Even though it was easy to just jump into book #4, I totally need to catch up with the previous books.
I wanna join the Time Team – where do I sign up?
January 15, 2023
“The name Jane Austen will never be on any volume. I shall quit writing.”
“To write another book would be to release my arrow with no target in sight.”
Fast-forward to 2084: Something was altering the space time continuum and the course of history.
In the beginning, the read is quite dry and technical. It certainly wasn’t too alluring. But once you sift through all the details, the bottom-line was this: someone was tampering with Jane Austen’s life. Making her book, Pride and Prejudice, sink might take the author with it. Without it, women’s fiction might’ve gone a different way, and, with it, women’s future.
This mission: travel through time to rescue Jane Austen.
Okay, now we got a compelling concept.
Story shifts back-and-forth between the past and the future with the time traveler zig-zagging everywhere. This gets a little confusing. Jane’s part in the past is very slow and uneventful. The best part are the scenes with the time traveler. Story, all in all, had a lovely prose, very flowery and so consistent with a typical Jane Austen book. That’s all it really felt like—nothing but pretty words with no real push to the story.
The book was certainly well-written, but I just didn’t feel too involved with the story. Usually, a good story sucks me in from the beginning ‘til the end. I liked the concept of getting history back on track and saving the future.
It’s a fairly nice read, but I guess I just expected to like it more.
“To write another book would be to release my arrow with no target in sight.”
Fast-forward to 2084: Something was altering the space time continuum and the course of history.
In the beginning, the read is quite dry and technical. It certainly wasn’t too alluring. But once you sift through all the details, the bottom-line was this: someone was tampering with Jane Austen’s life. Making her book, Pride and Prejudice, sink might take the author with it. Without it, women’s fiction might’ve gone a different way, and, with it, women’s future.
This mission: travel through time to rescue Jane Austen.
Okay, now we got a compelling concept.
Story shifts back-and-forth between the past and the future with the time traveler zig-zagging everywhere. This gets a little confusing. Jane’s part in the past is very slow and uneventful. The best part are the scenes with the time traveler. Story, all in all, had a lovely prose, very flowery and so consistent with a typical Jane Austen book. That’s all it really felt like—nothing but pretty words with no real push to the story.
The book was certainly well-written, but I just didn’t feel too involved with the story. Usually, a good story sucks me in from the beginning ‘til the end. I liked the concept of getting history back on track and saving the future.
It’s a fairly nice read, but I guess I just expected to like it more.
January 10, 2023
Bad Start, Interesting Middle and End
This is a very unusual book that got off to a rocky start for me. The first scene with Jane Austen and her father was more than a bit overblown. From what I know of Jane Austen's personality, she would not be prone to such flights of despair and drama. Since that first scene was supposed to be authentically set in 1802, some vocabulary choices jarred me from that era. The description of the whole time travel element in the next scene was a little confusing and a bit long, but once Jane started doing a little time traveling herself, to see how her works are so beloved centuries later to encourage her writing, in the book, it became fun. I'm a massive fan of Jane Austen's work as well as fan fiction based on her characters, so it was delightful to see my girl experiencing life just a few years ahead of us in 2024 and then back briefly to the late 1770s to witness a little of the Napoleonic Wars. Our dear Jane also gets to have a little romance, which I'll let you discover for yourself, including its ending, if you decide to read the book. If you can get past the high drama and anachronisms, you might find the bulk of this book more fun and engaging than the first part might suggest it would be.
This is a very unusual book that got off to a rocky start for me. The first scene with Jane Austen and her father was more than a bit overblown. From what I know of Jane Austen's personality, she would not be prone to such flights of despair and drama. Since that first scene was supposed to be authentically set in 1802, some vocabulary choices jarred me from that era. The description of the whole time travel element in the next scene was a little confusing and a bit long, but once Jane started doing a little time traveling herself, to see how her works are so beloved centuries later to encourage her writing, in the book, it became fun. I'm a massive fan of Jane Austen's work as well as fan fiction based on her characters, so it was delightful to see my girl experiencing life just a few years ahead of us in 2024 and then back briefly to the late 1770s to witness a little of the Napoleonic Wars. Our dear Jane also gets to have a little romance, which I'll let you discover for yourself, including its ending, if you decide to read the book. If you can get past the high drama and anachronisms, you might find the bulk of this book more fun and engaging than the first part might suggest it would be.
April 16, 2023
ane Austen got a rejection letter from a publisher and wants to give up writing altogether as she's somehow convinced that she's only got this one chance to get published. George, a time traveling gentleman from the 2080s, gets worried that the history of literature and feminism might get changed without Austen's works and visits her in Steventon. It turns out that Austen has some timetraveling DNA in her so George takes Jane to Pasadena in our time, hoping to show her the importance of her work. She meets some fans and learns to know one of them a lot better.
This story got to a slow start as we spend some time in George's head but got more interesting once Jane's adventures in time start and we see things more from her perspective. For me, it was more plot-driven than character driven as I wasn't sure where the plot was going so it kept my interest but I didn't think that I knew any of the characters well and it wasn't an emotional story for me.
I received a free copy and this is a voluntary review.
This story got to a slow start as we spend some time in George's head but got more interesting once Jane's adventures in time start and we see things more from her perspective. For me, it was more plot-driven than character driven as I wasn't sure where the plot was going so it kept my interest but I didn't think that I knew any of the characters well and it wasn't an emotional story for me.
I received a free copy and this is a voluntary review.
February 22, 2023
This novel's plot and characters just never acquired believable flow for me. It involved a group of time travelers who pop into the past and the future and fix problems in time that threaten to change how things are supposed to unfold. There's a lot that isn't clear and just seems clunky and contrived and not reasonable within the storyline. However. Jane Austin as a time traveler rocks! Just loved how she was portrayed as spunky, clever, and adaptable. I would have enjoyed more time in Jane's head as she was confronted with 21st-century fashion, inventions, and behavior! There were also some nice plot details that worked in Jane's real life and writings and how this was affected by what happened to her in the 21st century, but it was limited and not fully explored.
January 1, 2023
Such imagination and an f bomb included. Sorry can't take that.
Thanks to the author for providing this book for my honest review!
Thanks to the author for providing this book for my honest review!
February 13, 2023
Unique
I found the plot unique and the writing good. Though the characters are interesting people, I don't feel like I got to know any of them well.
Mostly closed door romance.
I found the plot unique and the writing good. Though the characters are interesting people, I don't feel like I got to know any of them well.
Mostly closed door romance.
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