Snarky English major Lissie is the middle of three sisters who were taken in by their aunt and uncle after Lissie's parents died. While Lissie's younger sister focuses on being a tween and improving her times on the swim team, Lissie and their eldest sister help out by waiting tables at their relatives' Chinese restaurant. Or a least they do until Lissie accidentally serves a dish that triggers an allergic reaction in a customer and another member of the party, the haughty Preston Lin, writes a scathing article about the restaurant in the local student newspaper. Suddenly, Lissie finds herself unemployed, but still trying to defend the restaurant online while helping shepherd her younger sister to swim practice.
As can be assumed from the title, this is a modern, Chinese American twist on Jane Austen's classic Pride & Prejudice. While I'm all for retellings of classics, I feel like so many of the romance novels I've read recently focus specifically on P&P, and this one doesn't really have anything to lift it above any of the others. Perhaps that's because the play Lissie's writing is ALSO a P&P retelling, which feels a bit too on-the-nose. OK, but not great.
*This book will be published March 19, 2024.
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