'The Code For Love And Heartbreak' Isn't 'Emma' — But It Is Charming
Jillian Cantor's new YA novel lifts some of the elements of Jane Austen's classic — like character names — wholesale. But you'll enjoy it more if you don't expect the plot to follow exactly.
When I heard that Jillian Cantor's The Code for Love and Heartbreak was a Jane Austen retelling, I was all in. A STEM-nerdy Emma where the heroine likes numbers more than people? Sign me up!
I was not prepared for just how much of the original story this book would incorporate, right down to the names. But if you are a super-Austenite who spends the entirety of this story comparing and contrasting it to
