Prada & Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard
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.
This book had a lot of potential, but in the end, it felt very flat to me. The fact that she thought buying $400 shoes would a) help her make friends and b) be a justifiable “emergency” was kind of nuts. Once she got to Regency England, she was a brat and really slow on the uptake. She was rude to her hosts multiple times and always seemed to believe that the current ideals were better than the way things were back then. It just felt very obnoxious. Alex didn’t quite work for me, either. I never saw any reason why he would like Callie. And the last thing that bothered me is that the book ended very abruptly. I felt like a little more of Callie’s story could have been told to sum up the book.