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3.0 AVERAGE
3.0 AVERAGE
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What a fun and lighthearted story. It was exactly what you would hope - a modern fairytale, complete with wicked step-family, a villain, a prince, a makeover, and magical fairy godmothers. The tongue-in-cheek way the rules and fictional characters are talked about is highly amusing.
I enjoyed Grace, and Max, and the easy way they interacted, and Myrtle, Blossom, and Fern are a lot of fun!
This was also a quick read, my having finished in about 3 hours. The pacing was perfect and the writing spot on. There is a whimsy to it all that really works with the style of the story.
And then, when you think it's all going to just wrap up in a "Happily Ever After," you get more of a taste of reality. The type of reality that makes you believe that the Ever After being so Happy is exactly as it should be, magic or no magic.
I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. This is no way influenced my review. My opinion is my own.
What a fun and lighthearted story. It was exactly what you would hope - a modern fairytale, complete with wicked step-family, a villain, a prince, a makeover, and magical fairy godmothers. The tongue-in-cheek way the rules and fictional characters are talked about is highly amusing.
I enjoyed Grace, and Max, and the easy way they interacted, and Myrtle, Blossom, and Fern are a lot of fun!
This was also a quick read, my having finished in about 3 hours. The pacing was perfect and the writing spot on. There is a whimsy to it all that really works with the style of the story.
And then, when you think it's all going to just wrap up in a "Happily Ever After," you get more of a taste of reality. The type of reality that makes you believe that the Ever After being so Happy is exactly as it should be, magic or no magic.
I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. This is no way influenced my review. My opinion is my own.
It's still on my Kindle and maybe I'll go back to it but the premise just wasn't what I wanted.
Within the very beginning she finds the love interest, feels for the love interest, tells the love interest about the fairies, and he basically falls for her as well. While he doesn't seem to believe the fairies he's not nearly as concerned with them as he should be.
Also there's a ridiculous amount of "ugly duckling" girl with pony tail and flannel shirts now beautiful bc she's wearing make up and did her hair and wearing high heels and I'm so over that trope.
Within the very beginning she finds the love interest, feels for the love interest, tells the love interest about the fairies, and he basically falls for her as well. While he doesn't seem to believe the fairies he's not nearly as concerned with them as he should be.
Also there's a ridiculous amount of "ugly duckling" girl with pony tail and flannel shirts now beautiful bc she's wearing make up and did her hair and wearing high heels and I'm so over that trope.
I love my happily-ever-after romantic stories. I love easy, feel-good fast reads after reading a book that had a heavy theme to it. I was given a copy of Mad About Max back in 2016 to celebrate the release of the fourth book in the series, but for too many reasons, I never got around to it. As I am cleaning off my NetGalley shelves, I thought I would give this one a try.
While the story line itself seemed cute, the execution was a little off. A writer tells the story of 3 fairy godmothers who happen to come to life to make her romantic dreams come true, but instead they cause havoc before finding the HEA. There's Cinderella vibes throughout, as Grace also has a wicked stepmother and stepsister who are after her inheritance she's about to come into. Alas, there are no carriages turning into pumpkins (because THAT would be taking it a bit too far).
I found myself starting to skim the book about halfway through. When characters meet and fall in love with no pretext, I find myself unable to buy into the story. I have read some great books where characters fell into the love at first sight trope and I believed it. This? I didn't buy into it because I never really knew any of the characters. Grace and Max were too 1-dimensional for me to care about anything that happened. All the story lines were built up to fall flat, and it just couldn't hold my interest for long.
While the story line itself seemed cute, the execution was a little off. A writer tells the story of 3 fairy godmothers who happen to come to life to make her romantic dreams come true, but instead they cause havoc before finding the HEA. There's Cinderella vibes throughout, as Grace also has a wicked stepmother and stepsister who are after her inheritance she's about to come into. Alas, there are no carriages turning into pumpkins (because THAT would be taking it a bit too far).
I found myself starting to skim the book about halfway through. When characters meet and fall in love with no pretext, I find myself unable to buy into the story. I have read some great books where characters fell into the love at first sight trope and I believed it. This? I didn't buy into it because I never really knew any of the characters. Grace and Max were too 1-dimensional for me to care about anything that happened. All the story lines were built up to fall flat, and it just couldn't hold my interest for long.