Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me by Julie Wright

October 21, 2019 | 1 Comment
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Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me by Julie WrightGlass Slippers, Ever After, and Me
Author: Julie Wright
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Format: Audio, eBook, Print
Pages: 320
Date: October 21, 2019
Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Can the fairy tale bring Charlotte the happiness she’s looking for, or was he always there to begin with?

A modern, reimagined Cinderella story.

Charlotte Kingsley loves to write and dreams of having her reimagined fairy tales published, but she keeps getting rejected over and over. And to top it all off, her best friend, Anders, gets engaged, making her realize she s going to lose the Prince Charming who lives next door. After another rejection letter from a New York publisher, Charlotte decides to switch gears. What if she wrote a book about celebrating women for who they really are instead of trying to create a fantasy world for them to visit? She could call it The Cinderella Fiction, fill it with practical advice for living authentically, become ridiculously successful, and then find the confidence to tell Anders how she feels before it s too late.

Encouraged with her plan, Charlotte s new book practically writes itself and incredibly a small boutique publisher makes a quick offer to publish it. Though the publisher is well-known, it s a small company with limited resources. Charlotte worries about the book being successful and decides to sink her entire advance into hiring a premier publicity firm to make her book a bestseller. She also discovers that Anders has called off his engagement, and wants to try a relationship with Charlotte. Suddenly her fairy tale dreams seem to be coming true.

However, Charlotte’s publicist has very specific ideas about how to market the book and the author. Which means Charlotte with her average looks, cluttered apartment, and penchant for raspberry fudge ice cream will need to undergo a total transformation in a social media makeover which will have to exclude her best friend Anders. After all, people who see Charlotte’s perfect imperfections through a carefully curated Instagram account will relate and naturally want to buy her book.

At first, Charlotte is excited to enter this fantasy world and play dress up, and Anders reluctantly agrees to go along with it, even though it means he’s largely out of Charlotte’s social media life and hidden from her public life entirely. Gone are the days of posting in sweatpants, taking photos of take-out dinners, and chronicling just hanging out. And even though her life is now filled with book tours, parties, and publicity events, she wishes she could have Anders with her in private and in public to complete her fairy tale life.

The toll of her new life soon proves exhausting. Telling women to be authentic even while she herself is undergoing elaborating staging to get just the right image for her social media accounts makes her feel like a fraud. She hasn’t written anything new in months, and her relationship with Anders is falling apart. During a publicity event, Charlotte meets one of her favorite authors, someone who has more than thirty bestsellers. When she takes Charlotte under her wing, Charlotte is sure she has found her fairy godmother. Rather than helping her change her outward appearance, this seasoned author helps Charlotte see the beautiful person she already is and the worth of being authentic.

In the end, Anders feels like his relationship with Charlotte is just another one of her carefully curated images, a side-note even, and he decides to head home to his native Finland. Though she tells herself he’ll come around eventually, Charlotte needs to decide what she believes in: the fairy tale persona, or the woman Anders has always loved before he’s gone forever.

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About Julie Wright

Julie Wright wrote her first book when she was fifteen. Since then, she’s written sixteen novels and co-authored three. Julie won the Whitney award for best romance in 2010 with her novel Cross My Heart, and the Crown Heart award for The Fortune Café. She loves writing, reading, traveling, hiking, playing with her kids, and watching her husband make dinner.


One response to “Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me by Julie Wright

  1. Maria

    My favorite part of this book was hearing Anders’ grandfather speak Swedish. My mother was a native Swede who came to the states in her early 20’s to marry my father, the American cowboy. The problem was that I understood what Farfar was saying while Lettie could not. I had to remind myself that she wouldn’t know what he was saying. ha ha. But it was fun for me.

    Now to the actual story. I loved the friendship between Anders and Lettie. And I loved the relationship between Lettie and her sister. So much of this book was about relationships; the relationships between friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors but also the relationship with oneself. Each relationship has to adapt and change as the people in them change, sometimes for good and sometime for bad and the people grow and change along with the relationships. I think that both Anders and Lettie had some growing pains in their relationship. And both of them made some hurtful mistakes.

    It took a quarter of the book to get to the point in the story that the blurb talks about. That first part felt a little slowish to me. It was a necessary part to understand Lettie’s frustrations and explained why she might be willing to go along with everything the publicist dictated but maybe took a little too long?

    The book is fun. The characters likable. I enjoyed the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. Overall, an enjoyable read. And I feel like I learned a little bit about publishing.

    No sex, language or violence

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