Phillipa (Flip) Allison and her friends, forming the "Four
Musketeers," engage in their book club and share their
fascination with Pride and Prejudice. Flip works as
an ornithologist and usually wears trousers with
unimpressive bird shit on them. Flip is taken with Magnus
Knightley, a British hunk from the University of Cornell
and visiting scholar, who's sitting at a nearby table at
the coffee shop listening to the girls loudly discuss the
book. None are aware that Magnus is "the" expert on
Pride and Prejudice and quite familiar with every
word written.
All hell breaks loose when Flip takes the advice of her
friend and decides to have a massage by a mysterious
masseuse who allows Flip to envision herself in her
favorite book through a dream. When hot sexual events occur
in her dream, Flip wakes to the realization that she's
changed the contents of the original writing of the book.
In an effort to return things to normal, Magnus, among
others, is drawn into another dream in an attempt to
restore the contents. Their journey in the dream explodes
their entire world with hot, hot sex. Madame K promises to
help restore things at the expense of Flip and Magnus
losing all memory of the events and each other.
I loved all the mystery of finagling the events in an
effort to set things right again. Ms. Cready's characters
were very believable, intelligent and successful people.
The story includes a lot of humor and clever incidents
throughout. Gwyn Cready is a very inspiring author
who has a terrific sense of originality and a gift for the
paranormal. I thoroughly enjoyed reading her novel.
Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style. She prefers
novels that include hot sex on the bathroom sink to the
mannerly high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and
Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who
promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to
"Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book." Somehow on the way
to a sizzling sink top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip
lands right in the middle of Regency England--and
dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact,
that she discovers you can't always judge a book by its
cover.
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