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3.52 AVERAGE
so basically what i love love love about this book is that it has everything. you'd just expect it to be some cheesy love story but it goes way beyond that, it gets exciting and scary and thrilling.
you cry on one page and lose yourself laughing on the next.
and most of all i loved that the main story is just what you'd lay in bed at night and imagine, except better written and more detailed.
and i have to give it to the author she did an excellent jib leading us to one assumption then surprising us.
you cry on one page and lose yourself laughing on the next.
and most of all i loved that the main story is just what you'd lay in bed at night and imagine, except better written and more detailed.
and i have to give it to the author she did an excellent jib leading us to one assumption then surprising us.
**This book was a free Kindle download that I obtained in 2015. I read this as part of my 2019 Kindle Spring Cleaning.**
I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected to. A book that is considered YA or NA has to have a lot of other stuff going for it to hold my interest because I have reached an age where it is more difficult for me to relate to teen problems. Luckily, there were other parts of the storyline that captured my attention. The issues that our heroine Chloe was dealing with from her past made all her decisions and preferences seem totally logical. Sometimes I want to tell a heroine to get over herself, but not in this case.
Also, I like a romance where the heroine genuinely isn't bowled over by the hero from the beginning. Chloe didn't hate Jason and she didn't secretly lust after him while putting up a front; she was genuinely feeling out whether she could have a friendship with him. That was a refreshing change from the books I've read recently.
This book has a steam factor of zero, so you can hand it to your teenage daughters, your elderly aunties, or the ladies in your church group. It is just a good story, plain and simple.
I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected to. A book that is considered YA or NA has to have a lot of other stuff going for it to hold my interest because I have reached an age where it is more difficult for me to relate to teen problems. Luckily, there were other parts of the storyline that captured my attention. The issues that our heroine Chloe was dealing with from her past made all her decisions and preferences seem totally logical. Sometimes I want to tell a heroine to get over herself, but not in this case.
Also, I like a romance where the heroine genuinely isn't bowled over by the hero from the beginning. Chloe didn't hate Jason and she didn't secretly lust after him while putting up a front; she was genuinely feeling out whether she could have a friendship with him. That was a refreshing change from the books I've read recently.
This book has a steam factor of zero, so you can hand it to your teenage daughters, your elderly aunties, or the ladies in your church group. It is just a good story, plain and simple.
Such a nice, fluffy romantic book that was quite comical at times. Jason was a sweetheart and I loved him amd Chloe together.
This book was amazing and I was hooked I could not put it down at all and was reading it whenever I could during the day. It is defiantly not my usual type of book but somehow Chloe's roller coaster of relationships drew me in, I also could really relate to her in certain ways and the book was fantastically written.
*Thank you to Goodreads and [a:Emily Mah Tippetts|1470927|Emily Mah Tippetts|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1334049437p2/1470927.jpg], because I won this book in a giveaway.*
You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but I sure like it when a book I'm reading has a nice cover. Like this one. It's a really lovely image.
The book might be called Someone Else's Fairytale but it starts out as what would have been my sixteen-year-old self's fairytale if you'd replace 'Jason' with one of the Backstreet Boys.Who am I kidding, it still is my fairytale
The story might sound a little like any other generic chick lit but it really isn't. Sure it has the out-of-reach boy falling for the girl who is really not anyone special but there is also a kind of mystery story running through the book. From the start it's clear that there is something wrong in Chloe's life but it's quite some time before you found out what it is.
I really liked Chloe's character. She's smart and independent and not easily impressed.
Some of the things that happen in the book are a little cliche but that comes with the genre. It didn't bother me to much.
I really enjoyed the book and am exited for part 2. Already a little sad that book 2 is quite a bit shorter than book 1.
You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but I sure like it when a book I'm reading has a nice cover. Like this one. It's a really lovely image.
The book might be called Someone Else's Fairytale but it starts out as what would have been my sixteen-year-old self's fairytale if you'd replace 'Jason' with one of the Backstreet Boys.
The story might sound a little like any other generic chick lit but it really isn't. Sure it has the out-of-reach boy falling for the girl who is really not anyone special but there is also a kind of mystery story running through the book. From the start it's clear that there is something wrong in Chloe's life but it's quite some time before you found out what it is.
I really liked Chloe's character. She's smart and independent and not easily impressed.
Some of the things that happen in the book are a little cliche but that comes with the genre. It didn't bother me to much.
I really enjoyed the book and am exited for part 2. Already a little sad that book 2 is quite a bit shorter than book 1.
This was cute. That's not to say it's perfect, but it has a lot going for it. The romance didn't take place over the course of a few days but developed over months. The beginning of the book felt a little bit forced but by the halfway point everything seemed to mesh together. Part of it was that the interactions between the best friend, the main character and the love interest weren't great. As the second half of the book started up the interpersonal relationships became more interesting. A troubled niece came into play and the roommate, who up to a point had seemed a convenient plot point, started to matter a little more.
I still felt the main character was unnecessarily judgy at times, and like I said, the first half of the book had moments where I was frustrated and wanted to put it down. Still it was ultimately a relief to find a main character in a romance where the hangup on sex didn't deal with a sexual assault and where there were actual female friendships.
I still felt the main character was unnecessarily judgy at times, and like I said, the first half of the book had moments where I was frustrated and wanted to put it down. Still it was ultimately a relief to find a main character in a romance where the hangup on sex didn't deal with a sexual assault and where there were actual female friendships.
1.5 stars. At least it was free on Kindle.
The concept – a movie star falling for the one girl whose dream isn’t a hot movie star falling for her – was intriguing, but that was also all.
However, it kept me reading through to the end, which earns it half a star more than it would have for the plot and the characters. Because this was one of the dumbest stories I have ever read. And there were so many annoying things.
Of course the male BFF is actually pining for the main character in a romantic way. Or is she pining for him? I don’t know. Because clearly men and women can’t be ‘just’ friends. Right.
The said BFF also presumes to tell the protagonist who she shouldn’t be friends with and how often she should talk to them. Red flags rising my hackles all around.
Then, Chloe, from whose POV the story is written, sounds awfully immature, despite being through quite an ordeal in childhood and apparently having to take care of herself. She is 21, but her actions and even more her reasoning are those of a 15-year-old. As someone who basically had to grow up at 14, I couldn’t at all relate to her childishness – and it shows the author clearly wrote neither from experience nor from sufficient research.
But most of all, the story is just bland, as in, there isn’t any story – only enumeration of this and that which happens, and the reader knows the main characters will get a HEA anyway. There is some drama due to Chloe’s past, but it doesn’t really serve the story, although it is rather interesting on its own, and I think the author would have had more success with it if she had written a YA thriller about that ordeal instead of this ‘romance’.
The characters are equally bland. There are hardly any descriptions (and I don’t mean hair/eye colour, height and whatnot; there aren’t even any mannerisms and such that make up a person(ality)), unless you count unfavourable ones of the supposedly hot movie star. And while leaving physical appearances up to the reader’s imagination can work out marvellously, this isn’t the case in Someone Else’s Fairytale. Hence, everyone seemed just words on paper, dead, and I felt no connection to any of them.
Which brings me to the last and worst: the story was feeling-less. It is supposed to be a romance, but I couldn’t feel a thing reading it. Angst? Love? (Who am I kidding?) Tension? Happiness? Sadness? Anything? Nope, nothing. A phone book makes me feel more.
This review was originally posted on my book blog, Beyond Strange New Words.
The concept – a movie star falling for the one girl whose dream isn’t a hot movie star falling for her – was intriguing, but that was also all.
However, it kept me reading through to the end, which earns it half a star more than it would have for the plot and the characters. Because this was one of the dumbest stories I have ever read. And there were so many annoying things.
Of course the male BFF is actually pining for the main character in a romantic way. Or is she pining for him? I don’t know. Because clearly men and women can’t be ‘just’ friends. Right.
The said BFF also presumes to tell the protagonist who she shouldn’t be friends with and how often she should talk to them. Red flags rising my hackles all around.
Then, Chloe, from whose POV the story is written, sounds awfully immature, despite being through quite an ordeal in childhood and apparently having to take care of herself. She is 21, but her actions and even more her reasoning are those of a 15-year-old. As someone who basically had to grow up at 14, I couldn’t at all relate to her childishness – and it shows the author clearly wrote neither from experience nor from sufficient research.
But most of all, the story is just bland, as in, there isn’t any story – only enumeration of this and that which happens, and the reader knows the main characters will get a HEA anyway. There is some drama due to Chloe’s past, but it doesn’t really serve the story, although it is rather interesting on its own, and I think the author would have had more success with it if she had written a YA thriller about that ordeal instead of this ‘romance’.
The characters are equally bland. There are hardly any descriptions (and I don’t mean hair/eye colour, height and whatnot; there aren’t even any mannerisms and such that make up a person(ality)), unless you count unfavourable ones of the supposedly hot movie star. And while leaving physical appearances up to the reader’s imagination can work out marvellously, this isn’t the case in Someone Else’s Fairytale. Hence, everyone seemed just words on paper, dead, and I felt no connection to any of them.
Which brings me to the last and worst: the story was feeling-less. It is supposed to be a romance, but I couldn’t feel a thing reading it. Angst? Love? (Who am I kidding?) Tension? Happiness? Sadness? Anything? Nope, nothing. A phone book makes me feel more.
This review was originally posted on my book blog, Beyond Strange New Words.