Sophia Rose reviews: The Great Austen Adventure by Tomi Tabb

 

Today Sophia Rose reviews The Great Austen Adventure by Tomi Tabb
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The Great Austen Adventure by Tomi Tabb

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Romantic Comedy

Publisher: Pas de Chat Publications

Published:  1.3.23

Pages:  262

Rating: 4 stars

Format: eARC

Source:  won

Sellers:  Amazon

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GoodReads Synopsis:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Jane Austen addict in possession of an airline ticket to Bath must be in want of a Mr. Darcy to call her own.

By day Sabrina is a workaholic administrative assistant. By night she is a devoted reader of Regency romance novels.

Her life is predictable. Eat. Work. Sleep. Repeat. The only thing keeping her going is knowing that come summer, she’ll be heading to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath.

Lorenzo is a prince who doesn't believe in love. His heart has been broken one too many times. He’s given up hope that a person could ever love him the man instead of for his royal status.

When a careless mistake at work gets Sabrina fired, she heads to Italy in hopes of figuring out the mess her life has become.

What she wasn't expecting was to step into a "meet cute" straight from the pages of an Austen novel. When she literally crashes into the handsome Lorenzo–masquerading as a wine merchant–her life is forever changed. They soon learn that their lives are more interconnected than either one of them ever imagined.

Sabrina is beginning to feel as if she might have found her own Mr. Darcy, except, there is one problem–Lorenzo doesn't want anyone to know he is a prince and he definitely doesn't want to fall in love.

Could the right person prove to a prince that love can heal the scars of the past?

This is a royal romance for sweet and clean romance readers. Kissing only and no cursing.

 

Sophia Rose's Review:

Who knew that losing her job and her mother’s good opinion could land her in her very own Jane Austen-like romance?  Tomi Tabb is a new to me author, but I was excited to give her royal romantic comedy set in Italy and the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, England a go.

 

Sabrina flubs her administrative assistant job that she only took to please her ‘Lady Catherine de Bourgh’-like mother, but this turns out to be her opportunity to finally meet her online Jane Austen fan friend, Nora, in Italy who she’ll join for a bit before the women travel to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath.  Sabrina would love to meet her very own modern Mr. Darcy and imagine her delight when she encounters kind Lorenzo who shows her the Italian sights and tries to understand her love of Jane by reading the novels and watching the movie adaptions. 

 

Sabrina’s friend Nora has her own side romance going that I am glad will continue in her own story next.

 

Lorenzo is harboring a past broken heart and a big secret, but this sweet and sometimes funny romance was light and I enjoyed seeing Sabrina start to figure out that she was miserable living up to family expectation and she didn’t have to compete with her sister and she could have her own happily ever after.  The Great Austen Adventure was a quick contemporary sweet romance that I enjoyed for the travels and the easy read tones plus the funny and entertaining Austen-themed adventure. 

 

Author Bio:

Tomi Tabb is a coffee loving writer who has been dreaming up stories since she was a little girl. Her first published novel, Dancing With a Royal, made its debut in 2020. She currently writes sweet romance novels.

Tomi resides in the United States with a spoiled cat. Outside of her day job, and attending graduate school, Tomi enjoys figure skating, shopping, and traveling. She is always on the hunt for pumpkin flavored foods and is willing to give almost any item a try.

Tomi is an avid supporter of one following their dreams. She lives by the quote, “everything is possible with the right mindset.”

Website:  https://tomitabb.com/

Sophia’s Bio:

Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.

As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.

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