Ryan

Kelly Miller's reimagination of Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel “Price and Prejudice” is a slow-paced but more than satisfactory historical fiction/romance novel.

The retelling is certainly charming in its creativity, but if I had to make one tiny criticism of the book, it would be that more could have been done to capture the spirit of the Regency era. It's a great story and the readers really get to know the protagonists intimately - but we learn precious little about the setting or the context of the times. The characters were very well-developed but more attention to the setting would have done so much to really build the mood in the story and take it to the next level.

The book flows beautifully, however, and the incorporation of dialogue is top notch. If you're looking to take a trip back in time, I really think that you will enjoy this book.

At sixty-one pages, this autobiography of World Champion is a very quick read geared towards a younger audience. The book offers Jill's perspective of the women's competition at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. The book's message is a great one for its target audience - that the Olympics aren't about medals alone. We don't really get to know much about Jill's backstory before the Games - but this was, after all, a young adult book about her experiences at the Games - not an in-depth biography geared towards adult audiences.