I enjoyed this retelling because let's face it - I am trash for all pride and prejudice remakes/retellings. And this one is better than some I've come across. But I think I liked the idea of it more than the actual story. It both follows the original too closely in some ways, and doesn't follow it close enough in others. I think a lot of that had to do with the characters. I wanted to care more about Janae and Ainsley, but we barely got to see them or get to know them. The little sisters also were barely there and had no story or character. Carrie and Georgia too really felt like they were just added in because they were in the original, but served no real purpose here. These characters all should have been either removed from this version, or should have been fleshed out more.

I did like that Zuri grew over the course of the book, and I liked her world. And actually, the beats that resonated the most were with Zuri and Madrina, whose relationship was NOTHING like the original (Lizzy and Lady Catherine). But here, it was the strongest part of the book and I wish we got more of those types of elements. So I did like it, but I think I would have liked it more if it was a bit more fleshed out and like 100 pages longer.