TITLE: Fooling Around With Cinderella
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PUBLISHER: Self Published
What happens when the glass slippers pinch Cinderella's toes?
When Jaine Andersen proposes a new marketing role to the local amusement park, general manager Dylan Callahan charms her into filling Cinderella’s glass slippers for the summer. Her reign transforms Jaine’s ordinary life into chaos that would bewilder a fairy godmother. Secretly dating her bad boy boss, running wedding errands for her ungrateful sisters, and defending herself from the park’s resident villain means Jaine needs lots more than a comfy pair of shoes to restore order in her kingdom.
First in the Storybook Valley series, a blend of sweet romance, chick lit, and fairy tale fun.
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When she’s not visiting
theme parks with her family, (avoiding rides that spin and exotic hamburgers),
or writing about them, Stacy helps authors to strengthen their manuscripts
through her Crossroads Editing Service. She is currently writing the next book
in the Storybook Valley Series, Prancing Around with Sleeping Beauty.
Dylan
scrutinized Jaine, arms folded across his royal blue shirt with the Storybook
Valley logo stamped over the left in white block letters. “Do you wear
contacts?”
“I have
plenty of media contacts. Wait. Did you say wear contacts? You mean instead of
these?” Jaine fingered the earpiece of her gold-rimmed glasses.
“Right.
Contact lenses.”
She gave a
nervous chuckle. “I scheduled a consultation in college, but was too squeamish
to insert the lens. I was more comfortable in glasses.”
Was she
really justifying her vision enhancement choices to her prospective new boss?
Maybe he intended to discuss medical benefits. Or did he think she looked
nerdy? What was the saying? Guys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses?
Not that she wanted him to make a pass even if he was hot.
“How blind
are you without glasses?” Dylan persisted.
“You
wouldn’t want to drive with me.”
“How about
if you’re walking around a building? Are you in danger of hurting yourself?”
This
interview had taken the Mad Hatter Freeway from Fairy Tale Land into Wonderland
where nothing made a damn bit of sense. Did this guy have a glasses fetish,
like those weirdoes with shoe fetishes?
“I should
be okay. I take them off for special occasions.” In fact, Jaine’s older sister
Bree, who was getting married in August, remarked just last week, “You are
losing the glasses for my wedding pictures, right?”
What the
hell. She’d be a good sport and hope Dylan would be so grateful to pick the
brain of a real, flesh and blood, bespectacled person that he would appoint her
marketing director. Jaine removed her glasses and the fine details of her
surroundings fuzzed. She nodded toward the framed print hanging on a side wall,
the picture a wash of symbols and colors. “I can tell that’s a park map, but
the words and images smear together.”
And that
was myopia in a nutshell. Jaine adjusted her glasses back into place so she
could see his reaction. Dylan examined her with such intensity that a blush
stained her cheeks. She patted her blonde French braid, in case stray strands
were straggling out.
“Here’s the
situation,” Dylan said. “I took over the general manager position a few months
ago. I’m evaluating possible changes and researching how other theme parks run.
My grandfather and father have worked with a marketing firm for years to create
our brochures, billboards, print, and radio ads.”
Jaine’s
shoulders caved, imperceptible to him, but it felt as if her whole body was
sinking.
No fairy
tale job ending for her.
Fooling Around With Cinderella is the story of Jaine, a twentyish girl who convince the general manager of a theme park to create a position for her. Of course the position comes with a price; she has to be Cinderella for the summer. This could be easy if Janie wasn't planning her sister's wedding and her boss wasn't a really handsome and cool guy. All these ingredients are the recipe to a funny, sweet and entertaining chick lit book.
Jaine is a great character. She is real and has a vibrant personality. She likes multitasking and is very demanding with herself. Then we have Dylan, the boss, he is the perfect chick lit hero. He is funny, respectful and brings the best of Jaine. He is adorable with kids and is ready to leave his past of women behind. Of course these two will have many obstacles to overcome but their relationship is really enjoyable.
I really liked that the romance doesn't take the spotlight all the time. For me this book is about deciding the person you want to be. Jaine has always puts everyone needs before her own and it has made her happy and she doesn't regret it but now she has to stand for what she wants.
Storybook Valley is the perfect scenario for the story. The fairy tale characters and the magic create a wonderful scenario. The descriptions make it easy to picture all the attractions and the different locations.
The writing style is very good, the dialogues come naturally and the story flows at a steady pace.
This one is a fast, charming and sweet book perfect for all the chick lit lovers.
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