From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that’s What If It’s Us meets Bridgerton.
What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime?
Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. But after getting dumped by her first love and waitlisted at her dream art school all in one week, she has no intention of putting her heart on the line again to get it back. So when local curmudgeon Mr. Montgomery walks into her family’s Pittsburgh convenience store saying he can help her, Audrey doesn’t know what she’s expecting…but it’s definitely not that she’ll be transported back to 1812 to become a Regency romance heroine.
Lucy Sinclair isn’t expecting to find an oddly dressed girl claiming to be from two hundred years in the future on her family’s estate. But she has to admit it’s a welcome distraction from being courted by a man her father expects her to marry—who offers a future she couldn’t be less interested in. Not that anyone has cared about what or who she’s interested in since her mother died, taking Lucy’s spark with her.
While the two girls try to understand what’s happening and how to send Audrey home, their sparks make a comeback in a most unexpected way. Because as they both try over and over to fall for their suitors and the happily-ever-afters everyone expects of them, they find instead they don’t have to try at all to fall for each other.
But can a most unexpected love story survive even more impossible circumstances?
What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime?
Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. But after getting dumped by her first love and waitlisted at her dream art school all in one week, she has no intention of putting her heart on the line again to get it back. So when local curmudgeon Mr. Montgomery walks into her family’s Pittsburgh convenience store saying he can help her, Audrey doesn’t know what she’s expecting…but it’s definitely not that she’ll be transported back to 1812 to become a Regency romance heroine.
Lucy Sinclair isn’t expecting to find an oddly dressed girl claiming to be from two hundred years in the future on her family’s estate. But she has to admit it’s a welcome distraction from being courted by a man her father expects her to marry—who offers a future she couldn’t be less interested in. Not that anyone has cared about what or who she’s interested in since her mother died, taking Lucy’s spark with her.
While the two girls try to understand what’s happening and how to send Audrey home, their sparks make a comeback in a most unexpected way. Because as they both try over and over to fall for their suitors and the happily-ever-afters everyone expects of them, they find instead they don’t have to try at all to fall for each other.
But can a most unexpected love story survive even more impossible circumstances?
Title: Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh
Author: Rachel Lippincott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Expected Publication Date: 8/29/23
Review:
Thank you to Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers for providing me with an advanced readers copy of this book to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
When I was contacted to review this book, I got very excited because I've really loved all the Lippincott books that I've read. Plus, the blurb for this story brought some Wizard of Oz vibes to me and I wanted to see how Lippincott tackled that. Not to mention I'm a big fan of books set in the 1800s.
Audrey is your typical teen, stressing over entrance to college and finishing up high school while trying to mend her broken heart. Suddenly, she's sent back in time to figure herself out. And that she does.
Audrey is a fun character. She's witty and very relatable. I think teens will find much of themselves in her. Lucy is a bit more reserved, seeing as she's from the 1800s, but I love how her character grows. I think her growth is more pronounced than Audrey's because of the time period she's from. And the secondary characters really were a lot of fun. I almost wish we would have gotten just a bit more about them. I don't feel like their personalities really show through as much as they could. Especially for the three gentleman who pursue Audrey; I feel like there wasn't that much of a difference in them.
Lippincott tackles the scariness of teens finding themselves and their sexuality and coming to terms with who they are. I enjoyed how she developed the romance, slowly, over time. It wasn't insta-love, which was really nice.
The pacing of this book is great. I read it in about two days. I wanted to see where the story would go, how the challenge facing Audrey and Lucy would be resolved. Even when I put the book down to do other things I was thinking about the story and when I'd get to pick it back up to see what happend.
Overall, this is a great coming of age story and I enjoyed it as I have the other's I've read by this author. I look forward to reading more of her books in the future.
Rachael Lippincott is the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart. She holds a BA in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Pittsburgh with her wife and their dog, Hank.
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