Back in high school, there was a girl in my English class who spoke about this book like it was the second coming (with such reverence, I kid you not!) She sang it's praises so high, it embedded itself in my brain and I vowed myself to read the book asap. 
 That asap came three years later, when I remembered it altogether randomly and decided to check it out. 
 I wish I hadn't listened back then. 
 I wish I'd stuck my hand up and said, this is NOT worth singing it's praises about. 
 MAJOR MAJOR ISSUES: 
 - Try avoid describing your male lead as having "love handles." It was a new technique unlike any I've encountered before. Instead of focusing on any positives, the author focused on sweat patches, a beer gut and yeah...it was a technique that was new to me, and there's a reason why many don't use it. Although I'm not shallow by any means, and put little stock in character descriptions, don't start describing the lead of a romance novel this way....it isn't endearing. 
 - This book, if I remember correctly, had direct quotations from Pride & Prejudice. If that wasn't bad enough, an exact same replica scene would happen to the female lead. It was bad. Really bad. The author was treating us like eejits. Instead of being subtle and clever, she's literally putting giant big arrows, saying LOOK HERE, PASSAGE I'VE LIFTED DIRECTLY FROM AUSTEN, CORRELATES EXACTLY WITH MY LIFE! 
 Bad form all round. 
 In fact I think I reviewed this book on my blog directly at the time...but since I can't find it, I'll just put this up instead :D