Book Review: The Cinderella Story

Author: Jennifer Crusie

Jennifer Cruise is a very talented lady and her books provide a reader with humor, suspense and most important believability. It’s a plus also that I usually find her heroines likable. Believe it or not, this is an often neglected aspect of character development that can get lost in telling the story. Let’s face it, if you are a fan of reading, how often do you read another book by an author whose MC you hated? Considering the premise of the story, Crusie could have written both characters as self-centered jerks, but she didn’t.

I enjoyed this one mostly because falling in love came as such a surprise to both characters.This is actually the first “have to get married” story I have read in a long time where the premise was actually believable. Both parties intended to get something out of the marriage and considered it incidental. Falling in love wasn’t even considered. As always, the side characters were funny aw well even if their silly behaviors were a bit exaggerated.