Sorry for the inconvenience but I have lost interest in the concept. Thank you for providing the copy though. I look forward to reading some more titles of yours. Thanks!

This is the kind of book that tries really hard to pull in 'true' readers. BUT what this ends up being is a book about a woman losing her grip on reality.

I would be remiss if I didn't admit that I saw a bit of myself in Alice. She is scared of being independent, will not admit when she's in love, love reading and her family. It's all very familiar.

That being said, this lacked a...punch. I was left hanging.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I had a hard time connecting with this book and gave up after 4 chapters.

Absolutely loved this book
Alice, the romantic, has spent a lifetime losing herself in books and finding them in everyday life. Her sister, the complete opposite, has plans for her, but Alice is determined to break away and live her life her way. A move to the Yorkshire Dales, the home of 'Wuthering Heights', Alice meets William.
Soon after, Alice overhears a conversation that puts the seed of doubt in her head and things start to unravel at a rapid pace.
A romantic thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

While I enjoyed the literary references liberally sprinkled throughout and the descriptions of beautiful scenery, I found the story too predictable, trite, twee.

Classic example of an author over reaching. Weeks tries too hard to fit in descriptive prose where simplicity would have been best.It was a tedious read having to read in between the nonsense to find the main ideas.

I wanted to like this book - it was set in Yorkshire, and some of the locations were interesting. Unfortunately that's all I have good to say about it - annoyingly one dimensional irritating, completely ridiculous protaganist, implausible and unbelievable plot, and dreadful dialogue.

This book is perfect for anyone who loves literature, and explores what happens when you lose your grip on reality. Alice meets William, her neighbor's nephew, and is immediately attracted to him. The two of them become great friends, but Alice is madly in love with him and believes they're soulmates. Alice loses her grip on reality and this novel explores the impact of literature on the psyche.

If you're into Literature so much so that you quote it all the time, then this is the kind of book you could read.
I mean if you're into Dickens, Shakespeare...and if you can quote the books as much as Alice does in almost every situation, then by all means, this is your feast.

If you love literature, but you're not into quotes ruling your daily life, then this is the kind of book you'll read the first three chapters and ask is this going anywhere?

If you are curious and love a character who is into literature, is struggling to get her own identity away from her twin, gets grand ideas, is scared of admitting she's in love, adores her family, enjoys reading books and memorizes what she reads then you'll find Alice to your liking. And one more thing, if you are into romance, then you'd be a tad disappointed that the light and Lust did not sparkle between William and Alice.

In Jennifer Weeks' "The Perils of a Literary Life", twenty-two year old Alice moves from London to accept a teaching position at a school hundreds of miles away in the Yorkshire Dales. She's never lived away from her mother and twin sister, so the move is quite a leap for Alice. She welcomes the independence and lifestyle changes that come with living in the countryside and soon makes friends with the elderly widower who lives next door and his nephew, William. William introduces Alice to a more exciting life than she's ever known – rock climbing, spelunking, and exploring the moorlands. Alice has a passion for classical literature and poetry, and quotes passages from various works throughout the book to the point where it becomes distracting.

The story was very slow moving and bogged down with pages of conversation between characters that did nothing to advance the story. Halfway through, I began skimming over the paragraphs in search of something of interest. In Chapter Nine the author finally introduced an event that moved the story along at a good clip, although the ending was no surprise. Many of the situations seemed contrived – they did not occur naturally with the flow of the story. In a few places the story jumped inappropriately from past tense to present tense. There were some well-written descriptions of landscapes and life on the moors.

I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I personally found all the characters except Annie to be unlikable. The main character had her head in a book so much that she wasn't living in reality. Her twin sister was just annoying and pushy. Found the book to just be too silly for my liking.