Book Blurb
Dive into the fabulous, fun lives of six Academy girls as their friendships are tested, torn and ultimately triumph. Kat is destined to be a star and her big break has arrived at last! As the assistant to a celebrity classmate on the set of a feature film, she's going to show everyone she has what it takes. That is, until she discovers pursuing her dreams may mean forfeiting her heart. Unless she can find a way to have both…
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The last thing that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is hot guys to flirt with. But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are coming. And it’s about to turn the Academy—and the lives of its students—totally upside down…
The Jane Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a beach-side California boarding school.
Toot's Review by Stacy Sabala
Kat Morley is the lead actress in all the plays at the Jane Austen Academy. Her dream is to be an actress in Hollywood. So imagine her excitement when Josh Wickham invites her to be his Personal Assistant over Christmas Break for a movie he is shooting. Kat is over the moon. It becomes all she talks about.
When she gets on set she meets the other stars of the movie, Izzy Engel and Henry Trenton. Izzy is famous and Kat wants to be just like her. Henry is the son of a very famous actor and has been around the business his whole life. Kat is star struck by them both. She is exactly where she wants to be. She is determined to soak up all the information and experience she can. She hopes she can even get a part as an extra while she is there.
However, Josh is more focused on himself and refuses to help her get a part. Instead he gives her a to do list every morning. Izzy decides to help her out and seems to include Kat as the group. Kat is so happy that she could want nothing more than this or so she thinks.
Henry has caught her eye and she starts to question what it really is to be a part of a production like this. The more time she spends on set with the actors, she becomes more confident in herself not a role she is playing. She finds herself seeing what it means to be a star and how things can get turned around or even become a game.
When scandal breaks and Kat is blamed for leaking information, she is devastated. She thought they had seen the real her, especially Henry. A dose of reality is what she gets and a new outlook on how she is gong to get what she wants.
Even though this book didn’t have the whole group from the academy there, it was still a great story. It was fun to see the making of a movie and the drama that goes into it. It was also exciting to see Kat enter her dream world and have her eyes opened to what it is really like. Once she was inside it wasn’t as perfect as she thought. In fact it was hard to watch Kat be manipulated by the people around her because of her eagerness. She figured it out in time though and became a stronger person as a result. This was a great continuation of the series. I loved this approach to a Jane Austen classic.
I give it a 4 out of 5
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