Very compelling story and often funny - quite unpredictable as well. I found myself caring about what would happen to the characters, especially poor Jane.I liked Amanda at first. I liked her love for Pride and Prejudice, and her longing for a world of manners and true love. However, when she actually was given the chance to enter that world, she repeatedly showed herself to be unworthy of it. She is crude, she gets drunk at a party, and she teaches Lydia bad things. She had once professed to know and love the world of the Austens, but when she doesn't get her way in the matter of marriage she presumes to lecture a heartbroken Darcy about the lack of "emotional integrity" she sees in the Regency culture. Very offensive. Clearly she doesn't belong in his world. She should have gone back where she came from once she had brought Lizzie back to her rightful time.