In order to salvage the fortune they accrued before humans fled the frozen Earth 170 years ago, Leonie’s father is forcing her to participate in the Valg Season, an elaborate set of matchmaking events held to facilitate the marriages of rich and royal teens. Nineteen-year-old Princess Leonie Kolburg’s royal family is bankrupt. Stick with this modernization of Anna Karenina it pays out in the end.įor the second time in her life, Leo must choose between her family and true love. References to Anna's 'exotic' beauty are not contextualized.

Anna and Steven are Korean and white Dustin is black, adopted into a white Jewish family other main characters are white. The ending, while slightly predictable, comes to a satisfying conclusion. Despite getting off to a slow start, this is a gripping story with sympathetic characters struggling through the mire of modern relationships. The distant writing style and pervasive dropping of brand names slow the narrative and weaken its analyses of love, racism, social standing and wealth, sexism, addiction, and mental health. Taking place over the course of a school year, the characters move from party to nightclub, heart-to-heart to Coachella, with their ever changing relationships as the central focus. These are just the major characters in a cast filled with convoluted relationships. Kimmie, Steven's girlfriend's sister, tries to be a regular teen after training as an Olympic ice dancing hopeful and also struggles with inexperience in love. Her partying brother, Steven, rebels against their father’s strict, traditional views while his friend Dustin excels in school but is new to affairs of the heart. A slow-burn epic tale of love in modern-day Manhattan high society.Īnna K, a 17-year-old from a wealthy family, falls for the handsome Alexia 'Count' Vronsky and strives to stay loyal to her Greenwich, Connecticut, OG boyfriend of three years.

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