Megan McKnight prefers to be on a soccer field, scoring a
winning goal, than participating in a debutante season in
Dallas. When her mother secretly enters her into the
season
anyway, Megan is angry, but soon, she realizes exactly
what
being in the season means for her family. As she attends
parties, fails at social graces, and catches the eye of
sweet and charming Hank Waterhouse, she discovers she's in
for a wild ride that she won't forget.
Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer's THE SEASON is a
hilarious
contemporary retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and
Prejudice.
Megan is a college student who loves soccer, and the last
place she ever thought she would find herself is on the
dance floor in a ball gown. The characters touch on some
of
the bigger personality traits of their equals in the
original, but the plot structure is primarily what harkens
back. Megan is much more immature than Elizabeth Bennett,
but her character growth is beautiful. She begins the
story
hating everything debutants stand for, but she slowly sees
that there is benefit to knowing how to work society.
Hank (the Wickham) is more present in the story than
Andrew
(the Darcy) is, making the big romance a little flat,
though
still nice. However, the family dynamic more than makes up
for that. Megan only has one sister, a twin, who enters
the
season with her, and the two clearly have each other's
back.
The mother is as passionate about society as expected, and
it's no secret that she and her husband are struggling in
their marriage. Even so, both are wonderfully complex, and
their unorthodox pairing is still touching.
Readers looking for a good laugh with solid character
development will find THE SEASON a perfect fit.
“A fun, modern take on Pride and Prejudice.”—Jojo
Moyes, bestselling author of Me Before You
Megan McKnight is a soccer star with Olympic dreams, a
history major, an expert at the three Rs of Texas (readin’,
ridin’, and ropin’), but she’s not a girly girl. So when
her Southern belle mother secretly enters her as a debutante
for the 2016 deb season in their hometown of Dallas, she’s
furious—and has no idea what she’s in for.
When Megan’s attitude gets her on probation with the mother
hen of the debs, she’s got a month to prove she can ballroom
dance, display impeccable manners, and curtsey like a proper
Texas lady or she’ll get the boot and disgrace her family.
The perk of being a debutante, of course, is going to
parties, and it’s at one of these lavish affairs where Megan
gets swept off her feet by the debonair and down-to-earth
Hank Waterhouse. If only she didn’t have to contend with a
backstabbing blonde and her handsome but surly billionaire
boyfriend, Megan thinks, being a deb might not be so bad
after all. But that’s before she humiliates herself in front
of a room full of ten-year-olds, becomes embroiled in a
media-frenzy scandal, and gets punched in the face by
another girl.
The season has officially begun…but the drama is just
getting started.
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