I love retellings but this one was so half-hearted that it missed all the charm of taking a classic and updating it, because it felt like she had just taken a classic and decided 'now it's set in the future, but everything else is the same'. I think the author's intentions were good - that Austen had written a story well enough that it could transfer straight to modern times, but in reality, that isn't the case. It was too close to the original and the modern references felt like they were thrown in to just remind people that yes, it really was set in present day. It didn't work for me at all and I had to fight to get through it. 
 Sense and Sensibility was never my favourite to begin with, but this updating just didn't do it, or the characters, justice.