The synopsis: In this latest contemporary update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the four Benton sisters are uprooted from their life in Massachusetts to sunny Los Angeles, where everyone they meet at Coral Tree Prep has rich and famous parents. The oldest girls, high school junior and senior Elise and Juliana, are appropriately spunky and sweet-natured stand-ins for Elizabeth and Jane, appearing along with the rest of Austen's cast. Darcy becomes Derek, the handsome but prickly son of Brangelina-level celebrities; Wickam is Webster, who charms his way into the middle of Elise and Derek's budding romance; and Bingley becomes Chase, who is immediately taken with Juliana and destined to end up with her, too. (I stole this one from Publisher's Weekly).
At Coral Tree Prep in Los Angeles, who your parents are can make or break you. Case in point:
As the son of Hollywood royalty, Derek Edwards is pretty much prince of the school—not that he deigns to acknowledge many of his loyal subjects.
As the daughter of the new principal, Elise Benton isn’t exactly on everyone’s must-sit-next-to-at-lunch list.
When Elise'’s beautiful sister catches the eye of the prince’s best friend, Elise gets to spend a lot of time with Derek, making her the envy of every girl on campus. Except she refuses to fall for any of his rare smiles and instead warms up to his enemy, the surprisingly charming social outcast Webster Grant. But in this hilarious tale of fitting in and flirting, not all snubs are undeserved, not all celebrity brats are bratty, and pride and prejudice can get in the way of true love for only so long.
My thoughts: Love. LOVE. LOVE! Seriously, I know I sound like a broken record, but I prefer to think of myself as loyal. I've kind of gone away from romances because they seem so predictable, even the pithiness of the characters as of late, but as I said in Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts, I won't quit Claire LaZebnik. As soon as I saw her name, it was in my cart. Finding nothing else of interest on my shelf that night, I took this with me for my soak after working out. I was a prune by the time I was finished. I regret nothing. I could not get enough of the characters (except the third sister. do not love.), the dialogue, the story. It was all perfect.
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