Cute. Light. Easy.

Ever since I saw the cover a half year back I wanted to buy the paperback. When I read the annotation I was all in, thinking it will be a sweet, funny YA - I never asked for a good modern-day teen love story, I was even in the mood for going along with corny, but the book was a surprise. It is not corny. It is not complicated - actually cute, light and easy describe it best. There was just not enough to captivate, not as much laughter-inspiring words as I expected.

There was one scene I loved, and it was Elise dashing through the water sprinklers. The beach and the ping-pong were good ones, too. But the rest... even the conflict wasn't pulled out properly. I expected some major injury for all that fuss, but it wasn't all that. There was a naïveté to the characters and the storyline which made it kind of... too easy.

The point about prejudices was very good though. It really was 'turning tables', makes you think about how we judge everyone we meet incorrectly, and not cliché-style. The thing about celebrities's children was also a good shot.

I didn't know till immediately before I started in on the book that it was Pride & Prejudice based. I absolutely adore P&P, have read it many times, and so was kind of annoyed at how my mind kept bringing up Austen's novel while reading Epic Fail. I think the book would've been better if it didn't follow P&P so closely - instead of engaging me in its own drama, I kept thinking of Jane Austen's drama, even wishing to go to it. I love books based on classics, but not when they are not good enough as a stand-alone.

And though I've been harsher in this review than my usual style, I gave the book three stars because it deserved them. It was what I needed at the moment, and I read it on one go.