The worst Adaption I never read

Normally I only write about books to movies I have seen, but my mom roped me into watching with her the movie she found on a free streaming app, “What a Girl Wants”. Basically it was a movie about a early 2000’s girl who’s mom and dad had gotten married by some sort of native people, but her dad was from an old British family of prestige and they did not approve of his choice of a wild American wife. So she was chased back to America pregnant with the protagonist Daphne. The basis of the movie is Daphne now graduated goes to Britain to meet her enstranged father, who has no idea she existed. The only problem is that not only is he running for some sort of political office, but he is about to marry another women with fine blood and teenage children of her own. Daphne flails through high society life, and meets a boy who is a “half breed” similar to herself who says his parents are the happiest people he knows, even though his mom has been disowned by her rich family. The movie wasn’t that bad, rather well done and interesting enough to finish, but it wasn’t until the credits rolled that I noticed they started by saying inspired by “The Reluctant Debutante” by Becky Lower. Curious I looked up the book and it’s synopsis couldn’t have been more different. It is series of books starting with the afore mentioned title, about a high society family in pre-civil war south. The main character is Ginger who is a feminist before her time and has no want for her families balls and suitable men. Until she meets her brother’s best friend from St. Louis who is dark and mysterious. His secret being a half Native American and therefore completely unsuitable for her and the book is mostly about their relationship from what I can gather. But is that not the biggest change for an adaptation you’ve never read? They changed the time, the place, and the names of the characters. All that was left was high society, “half breeds”, and reluctance.