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Off Script | Kate Watson
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Teen starlet Emma Crawford loves playing matchmaker almost as much as she loves the spotlight, but when Emma comes in close contact with the darker side of Hollywood, she starts to question the glamorous world shes always known and realizes her role in it needs to changeif she can find the courage to go off script.
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Andrea313
Off Script | Kate Watson
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It was a mad dash to finish a few more Emma adaptations before starting Persuasion today, but I'm glad I did! I'd been wanting to watch the Kate Beckinsale version of Emma for ages, and the 2009 mini-series is my hands-down favorite version. And as for the tagged book, it was a pleasant surprise! I loved the non-romantic take on Emma's matchmaking and it works really well as a sequel to Seeking Mansfield. If you like YA and Austen, I recommend it!

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Third & final book in the Seeking Mansfield trilogy, this one was MUCH better than Shoot the Moon! It's a riff on Emma that was actually done really well. As with Seeking Mansfield, Watson comes up with some great ways to update the characters & their situations while remaining true to their personalities & motivations. Emma is my least-favorite Austen (yep, even behind MP) so ironically one of the reasons I didn't LOVE this one is because the ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) author did such a great job capturing the essence of the original haha

This one can totally be read independently of the other two books, although a lot of the background of the characters will be richer if you reading Seeking Mansfield first. I'm happy/aggravated to say that Shoot the Moon literally had nothing to do with this book, so it can be skipped entirely - oh that I had!

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) time, especially considering the people who are going to read a YA modern adaptation of Emma probably already have thoughts on women's rights, so I felt like I didn't need paragraphs of conversations explaining how “men just shouldn't rape“ etc.

Still, all in all in a fun story & definitely recommended to fellow #PemberLittens who enjoy modern/YA variations.

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