Main Character: Lizzie Bennett
Love Interest: Will Darcy
Series: None
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After winter break, the girls at the very prestigious Longbourn Academy become obsessed with the prom. Lizzie Bennet, who attends Longbourn on a scholarship, isn’t interested in designer dresses and expensive shoes, but her best friend, Jane, might be — especially now that Charles Bingley is back from a semester in London.
Lizzie is happy about her friend’s burgeoning romance but less than impressed by Charles’s friend, Will Darcy, who’s snobby and pretentious. Darcy doesn’t seem to like Lizzie either, but she assumes it’s because her family doesn’t have money. Clearly, Will Darcy is a pompous jerk — so why does Lizzie find herself drawn to him anyway?
Will Lizzie’s pride and Will’s prejudice keep them apart? Or are they a prom couple in the making? Whatever the result, Elizabeth Eulberg, author of The Lonely Hearts Club, has concocted a very funny, completely stylish delight for any season — prom or otherwise.
Isabel and Ames were reading this book and talking about how much they adored it so of course, I had to read it myself. They weren’t wrong because I adored this book too. This book was such a wonderful modern re-telling with a twist of Pride and Prejudice.
This book follows Lizzie Bennett as she makes her way back to school at Longburn Academy where she’s prepared herself for another semester of being a scholarship kid. Scholarship kids are like the Glee Club kids on Glee. They get milk shakes, coffee and what not thrown on them and the rich kids just aren’t very nice to them.
Lizzie’s excited to see her best friend at school Jane and her other scholarship kid friend Charlotte. They’ve stuck by her and she appreciates their friendship. In this book, there are differences from the original P&P story but none of them did anything to ruin my enjoyment of the story as a whole. What surprised me is that Lizzie in this book didn’t annoy me nearly as much as Lizzie in the original story did which I was grateful for.
In this book, the story centers around Prom. Prom is the be all and end all of high school life. You’re a nobody if you don’t have a date for Prom and you’re a loser if you don’t go to prom. You have to go to Prom in style and you have to have the right date and so on and so forth. Lizzie isn’t too worried about Prom since she doesn’t plan on attending prom and she’s okay with that. She’s a strong character and her character leaped right off the pages. It was so easy to connect with her because there’s a little bit of Lizzie in all of us as teenagers and I thought it was great.
The main draw for me in this book was Will Darcy. Getting to know Will Darcy all over again was to love the kid. His snobbishness didn’t bother me in the least because Eulberg did a great job of making Darcy interesting. You wanted to know more about Darcy and when Wick comes into the picture, your heart hurts a little because you know the drama is about to go down.
Lizzie and her assumptions sure did make things harder on her but when you put the book down after finishing it, you can’t help but smile because it was such an entertaining way to spend a few hours and to re-acquaint yourself with familiar characters. I enjoyed Lizzie and Will but also the secondary characters as well, Jane, Charles and Charlotte. It was a great YA contemporary romance and I’m eager for more from this author. I can already tell that I’m going to be a great fan of her work and I’m working on getting her other book read. If only my nieces would return it to me. I totally recommend this book to fans of Pride & Prejudice and fans of YA contemporary romance. This book doesn’t disappoint!
There’s some things in here that you probably wouldn’t want your 12 year old to read but I’d say 13 and up will be okay...and that’s your scoop!
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I loved this book. It was sweet, fluffy contemporary romance. I love how it drew from the original to create a unique story. I feel like we got to know Will better than we did Mr. Darcy.
I loved Elizabeth Eulberg’s first book and had no idea (because I of course wasn’t paying attention) that she wrote Prom & Prejudice. Of course, I love Pride & Prejudice, which was kind of the reason I was thrown off this book. But, it sounds really REALLY good and I do love Eulberg’s writing, so I’m definitely going to give it a go.
Jen
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I just reviewed this a few days ago and have to agree that I adored this book as well. It’s not a spectacular read but it is fun and easy to fall in love with. Great review!
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I want to read this one! Someone told me it wasn’t worth the hardcover, because it was kind of short, so I’m waiting.
Meanwhile I’m reading Lonely Hearts Club and liking it so far.
I loved this book! Makes me want to read Lonely Hearts Club!
I think I gave this one a higher grade. So you’re one tough cookie! LOL
I really had fun with this book. It made me want to watch Pride & Prejudice, the Kiera Knightley one.
I recently finished this book and enjoyed it. I’ve never read the original Pride and Prejudice (I know, I know), but thought this retelling was enjoyable. I read Elizabeth Eulberg’s first book, The Lonely Hearts Club, after. That was good, too.
Diana