A big thank you to @audrey.and.emily and @gallerybooks for this arc💖.

✨What it is about:

This is a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. It is set in the summer, and follows Lizzy and her four adult sisters who all reside with their parents, the Bennetts in East Hampton. There they encounter Charlie Pierce and his grumpy friend Will Darcy, and well, things definitely get off to a rough start…✨

💭My thoughts:

If you are familiar with Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, you know the game of enemies to lovers is strong in this story, and since that is one of my favorite tropes (if not my favorite of them all), I was so excited to read this. Though I did enjoy the first book in the series, Emma of 83rd Street ( 5⭐️) a bit more than this one, this was still a very good and entertaining story with lots of wit and charm, that kept true to the original for the most part, and incorporated some fun modern twists I enjoyed. I found Lizzy’s love of surfing to be a very original take for her character, and the role that it played in the development of a relationship with Will was one I appreciated. I also liked that true to the original, Lizzy still loves to read, but in this case it was fantasy, so fun! The Bennett’s modern drama was unique, and even funny to me at times, I mean an influencer, an entrepreneur and an activist/environmentalist?! A baker and an MLM junkie? 😂 Who would have imagined? These ladies definitely know how to put a modern spin on a classic, and I’m looking forward to the retelling they write next. Overall this was a well done, and definitely a fun summer read!

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Read if you like:

🌊 Classic retellings

🌊 Dual POVs

🌊 Slow burn

🌊 Enemies to lovers

🌊 Beach settings

🌊 Pride and Prejudice

⚠️CW: Death of a parent, stoke, medical content, some sexual content.