4
Fairy-Tales-Exist Stars!
Once
again, I find myself loving a Cindi Madsen book. Cinderella Screwed Me Over
is truly a book for the ladies and epic romance failures. We all try to imagine
we’ll have our knight-in-shining- armor roll in on his “white horse” wheels,
sweep us off our feet and treat us like royalty. However, that is the stuff of
fairy tales. Or so we believe anyway…
Darby
is the very cynical realist when it comes to relationships. She has real-life
experience. She’s been there, done that, not doing it again. She’s the expert,
she knows what she’s talking about.
Throughout
her 28 years of life, she has been through multiple seemingly fairy tale
relationships that have promise and hope, but then the guy takes off his armor
and there is a scrawny, lousy, selfish soul underneath and her romantic dream
of true love and happily ever after is shattered. Over and over again Darby
keeps placing herself in these situations and it has left her heart hard, with
walls built high and rules in place in order for it to stay intact.
But
then comes along Jake. The owner of her favorite restaurant, tenant in her
building, and because of those two things, he has already broken two of her precious
rules. But, as Jake says, “two strikes isn’t enough to get out. You need three.”
And boy does he use that little extra wiggle room to get one date with Darby.
As
Darby finds herself breaking all of her rules, one by one, slowly breaking down
her wall, she finds herself in trouble; her past colliding with her present,
reminding her of why she has her rules.
Can
she ever allow herself to be with Jake, the one man she wants to say F**K the
rules for? Or will her past failures continue to dictate her life?
There
were times that I wanted to slap Darby and tell her to get over her rules and
let Jake in, but I still have that romantic vibe thrumming through me and I
would always be that fool getting hurt over and over again. Darby is fun,
loving, strong, and stubborn and matches perfectly with Jake’s sexy, sweet,
funny, and drool-worthiness. My heart melted a little for them every time they
were in the same room.
I
highly recommend this book to anyone jaded by love or hopelessly romantic
(I
received an ARC for my review and this is my honest-to-goodness, straight from
the heart review!)
For my review of Cindi’s Act Like
You Love Me, Click Here!
No comments:
Post a Comment