Epic Fail
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4.4 • 152 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Pride and Prejudice goes Hollywood in this winning romantic comedy inspired by Jane Austen’s classic. In her teen fiction debut, the author of Knitting Under the Influence goes back to high school for a tale of sisters, misinformation, and star-crossed love.
Will Elise’s love life be an epic win or an epic fail?
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 in adult author LaZebnik's (If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now) YA debut. 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. LaZebnik's story has the feel of a summery teen rom-com, and although the author's adherence to Austen's original narrative makes her contemporary twists (misunderstandings via text messages instead of letters, for example) less twisty, Elise's first-person narration has ample wit. For Austen devotees, this adaptation will be reassuringly familiar and charming enough. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Was great.....until the end
That was not an ending. I thought I must've been missing a part of the book or something? Would've loved to read more about their relationship. There should be a sequel.
AMAZING!!!!
This Book was just great, I loved it. I could probably read it again, although I think it ended a bit to fast like it just ended but still just EXTRAORDINARY. 10/10 for sure.
THe most awesome book ever
this book had a great storyline and was extremely capturing. I read the sample and instantly wanted 2 buy the book and read the rest. there were many plots and surprises in every chapter. there is a lot of romance and dilemma and made the book a whole lot more interesting. I overall loved the book and am looking forward 2 finishing it but I'm trying 2 stop myself from finishing it because i am going on a long trip and want 2 read it on the way I only have 2 wait for a further for days and then my wait is over but if I Finnish it before my trip I will re-read it on the way and Finnish it later
anyways this is an excellent book and anyone who read one chapter will instantly want 2 read the rest