The amazon blurb says:
To impress the popular girls on a high school trip to London, klutzy Callie buys real Prada heels. But trying them on, she trips, conks her head, and wakes up in the year 1815!
There Callie meets Emily, who takes her in, mistaking her for a long-lost friend. As she spends time with Emily's family, Callie warms to them, particularly to Emily's cousin Alex, a hottie and a duke, if a tad arrogant.
But can Callie save Emily from a dire engagement, and win Alex's heart, before her time in the past is up?
More Cabot than Ibbotson, Prada and Prejudice is a high-concept romantic comedy about finding friendship and love in the past in order to have happiness in the present.
I've always enjoyed time travel books because it's fun to see how and what the characters respond to in the time they've been transported to. In Callie's case, when she wakes up in 1815 her first thought is that someone must have moved her to a wooded area because she's no longer in front of the Prada shop where she'd purchased her shoes. She starts walking until she comes to a house - a castle really - and finds herself in a "home" that doesn't have phones, electricity or indoor plumbing. She doesn't immediately understand that she's been transported to another time, instead she believes that the occupants of the home are eccentric and are "play acting" that they live in the past. And she thinks they've taken it a bit too far! :)
Once she realizes that she's the one that's out of place, she tries to figure out what her "mission" is that will enable her to return home to the twenty first century. In the process she crosses the line of proper etiquette and jumps to the wrong conclusion in several instances, in a fun and loveable way though. :)
This was a quick fun read for me. The only issue I had was the chapter breaks. In a lot of instances they seemed misplaced. There's a season finale of How I Met Your Mother where Barney says "It's gonna be Legen . . . wait for it" and the next season opened with him saying "dary". That's what the chapter breaks reminded me of because it felt like it should've been all done at the end of the one chapter and started fresh on the next one. And at least once there was an instance where I thought it was a perfect spot for a chapter break but there wasn't even a paragraph break. But other than that, it was very fluid and easy to read. I'd definitely recommend it!
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5 comments:
Is this a good book for introducing Jane Austen to teenagers? Or is the link mainly in the title and time period?
Stacy,
Thanks for stopping by!
I would say the link is mainly in the title and time period - not in the league of Jane Austen, in my opinion.
Sounds like a really fun read, Stacy. Thanks for the review.
Stacy asked my question so thanks for the reply! It sounds like a fun read, and I appreciated your analysis of the editing. I spend quite a lot of time configuring and reconfiguring chapter breaks myself.
This sounds like a fun, entertaining read for my child #4! Interesting about the chapter breaks. I think that's one of those things you don't notice unless it's a bit wonky. Thank you for reviewing!
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