Stuck Up and Stupid by Angourie and Karen Rice

I read broadly. Not a week goes by where I do not read some or all of a murder mystery--I hesitate to say daily, because sometimes I am flying, or sick, but really, while I read award winning fiction and non-fiction, I also read across the spectrum of what is available in written form. I point this out because rarely do I rate a book at 2-stars, and that is my assessment of this book. I also have read more than half of Reese Witherspoon's monthly picks--as celebrity book clubs go, hers is far and away my favorite, and I picked this because it is one of her picks. For me it fell flat. This is a modern-day Australian take on Pride & Prejudice--for me, this is one of the issues with the book, that it adheres too closely to the original, which you might think would be an advantage, but for me at least it made some of the events seem oddly out of place and the ending abrupt and unsupported by what happened before it.