So I picked this up immediately after finishing Pride and Prejudice. I was quite afraid that this book would taint my love for the former but it was far from that. It's easy to follow and a quick read.

Quite bold of the author to sell the book as the modern retelling of a popular and much loved classic when all it has to offer, is a cheap copy. The main characters share the initials and their character descriptions match albeit being modern. There is zero world-building or any depth to characters. Random situations are thrown in to bring parallels. Suddenly the dialogues would be in Old English, blatantly lifted from the original.

There are a lot of mistakes not corrected while editing. A lot of phrases such as smarmy smirk, get-real look are repeated so often it got on my nerves. Then there is the absurd mistake of referring to Finn as Finn Baker lmao. But my having read P&P made me quite forgiving of this book to be able to overlook and hence complete it.

This book surely had its fair share of moments but nothing here was solid. I'd have loved the book had the author not forced it to be an exact copy of the original. Situations were being so absurdly brought up and with almost no emotion that they made zero sense. I had a complete disconnect with the characters, none of them were likable. Charlie was over the top stupid, Camila was Class A mean girl. Finn was a total jerk and Mia, god alone knows how I endured her!

I thank NetGalley for the ARC but seriously, this could have been much better :/