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megatza's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
4.5 stars. Longer than most Sherry Thomas HR books, but the extra hundred pages are filled with mostly food descriptions. Loved this second chance romance, a little lower on the ST-angst-meter.
planetarypan's review against another edition
3.0
More like 3.5 stars. The story starts out slow and does a lot of flashback chapters to piece parts of the backstory together. Once the OTP meets in the backstory, though, things pick up speed and improve. At the end, I liked the book, but to be honest, I thought the chemistry between the side couple was better. I kept waiting for their chapters.
wearecompletelybooked's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
3.0
jessiethelion's review against another edition
Couldn’t get into. I’ll try again later.
heydebigale's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
A Cinderella retelling with not one but TWO romances with a hint of magical realism?! Loved it.
This Cinderella Story is a bit more heartbreaking than others that I read, but it felt like Sherry Thomas thought about how the Cinderella story would actually play out in reality & wrote that instead:
"I thought Cinderella was always gentle and kind and uncomplaining?"
"...It is because these tales have been written by men, men who have never spent so much as an hour in the kitchen. The real Cinderella curses, smokes, and drinks a bit too much. Her feet hurt, her back hurts, and she's resentful. She would like her pumpkin coach to run over the Wicked Stepmother. And Prince Toad too, if possible."
This was a book with two primary romances, but it was also a story about a woman who would do anything for her son, even if it meant sacrificing her happiness. The relationship between Verity/Vera and her son Michael had me in tears multiple times.
This book was Delicious. :) But seriously, the food descriptions were powerful?! Like, I wanted to eat absolutely everything in this book. Sherry Thomas is so good about writing food both here and the Lady Sherlock series.
This Cinderella Story is a bit more heartbreaking than others that I read, but it felt like Sherry Thomas thought about how the Cinderella story would actually play out in reality & wrote that instead:
"I thought Cinderella was always gentle and kind and uncomplaining?"
"...It is because these tales have been written by men, men who have never spent so much as an hour in the kitchen. The real Cinderella curses, smokes, and drinks a bit too much. Her feet hurt, her back hurts, and she's resentful. She would like her pumpkin coach to run over the Wicked Stepmother. And Prince Toad too, if possible."
This was a book with two primary romances, but it was also a story about a woman who would do anything for her son, even if it meant sacrificing her happiness. The relationship between Verity/Vera and her son Michael had me in tears multiple times.
This book was Delicious. :) But seriously, the food descriptions were powerful?! Like, I wanted to eat absolutely everything in this book. Sherry Thomas is so good about writing food both here and the Lady Sherlock series.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
escatusser's review against another edition
4.0
Sempre m'han agradat els arguments que juguen amb el menjar com a fil. Potser perquè m'agrada menjar bé, o perquè m'agrada cuinar o perquè soc obesa, no ho sé, però els plats semblen inspirar-me sentiments al llegir-los tant com als personatges menjar-los.
Aquesta novel·la també m'ha fet sospirar per les magdalenes, com em va passar amb "Como agua para chocolate".
La veritat és que l'argument no deixa de ser força original, tot plagat de bastards, i m'ha fet llegir-lo en dues tardes. Potser el final és una mica precipitat. Potser és inversemblant que una única trobada hagi provocat 10 anys d'agonia per als nostres protagonistes. Però bé, per a això estan els llibres, per a fer-nos somniar.
La Vera amaga un passat truculent. També ho fa el Stuart. També els secundaris Lilly i Mardsen. Per cert, hi ha llibre dels secundaris?
Un 3.5 per a aquesta "deliciosa" novel·la de la [a:Sherry Thomas|266470|Sherry Thomas|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1474415207p2/266470.jpg].
Aquesta novel·la també m'ha fet sospirar per les magdalenes, com em va passar amb "Como agua para chocolate".
La veritat és que l'argument no deixa de ser força original, tot plagat de bastards, i m'ha fet llegir-lo en dues tardes. Potser el final és una mica precipitat. Potser és inversemblant que una única trobada hagi provocat 10 anys d'agonia per als nostres protagonistes. Però bé, per a això estan els llibres, per a fer-nos somniar.
La Vera amaga un passat truculent. També ho fa el Stuart. També els secundaris Lilly i Mardsen. Per cert, hi ha llibre dels secundaris?
Un 3.5 per a aquesta "deliciosa" novel·la de la [a:Sherry Thomas|266470|Sherry Thomas|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1474415207p2/266470.jpg].
eak1013's review against another edition
4.0
I think this may be the book that puts me off romances for quite some time, because it'll be a damn sight for another book to be so eminently well-suited to my tastes as this one. There's lavish descriptions of food! It's all framed by a wink-and-a-nod to fairy tales! The heroine is actually quite sensible, and the hero is not entirely a lunkhead!
I also enjoy the work Thomas has done with the man who by all rights should be the villain in this book - the hero's half brother and the heroine's former lover. She takes him from what should be a caricature of a romance novel mustache-twirling villain who rejected both Our Heroine and Our Hero in their own personally devastating ways, and she gives credence to why these people who we're supposed to like and respect loved this quasi-villain in the first place.
Yes, yes, there's a huge swathe of Captain Exposition at the very end, but it's handled in such a way that it's still emotionally resonant and not just a plot dump.
Still - fairy tales and food as metaphor. Nope, this is pretty much my favorite romance novel written in the last twenty years.
I also enjoy the work Thomas has done with the man who by all rights should be the villain in this book - the hero's half brother and the heroine's former lover. She takes him from what should be a caricature of a romance novel mustache-twirling villain who rejected both Our Heroine and Our Hero in their own personally devastating ways, and she gives credence to why these people who we're supposed to like and respect loved this quasi-villain in the first place.
Yes, yes, there's a huge swathe of Captain Exposition at the very end, but it's handled in such a way that it's still emotionally resonant and not just a plot dump.
Still - fairy tales and food as metaphor. Nope, this is pretty much my favorite romance novel written in the last twenty years.
fringebookreviews's review against another edition
3.0
I didn’t hate this but I was just so thoroughly confused for so much of it. Idk if it was because it was an audiobook or what but the time jumps had me FUCKED UP. I had no clue what was happening it took me so long to realize there were flashback chapters I thought it was all happing in the present