always been a sucker for romantic fairytalelike stories, But when I heard about Someone Elses Fairytale is wasnt quite sure what to expect, I started reading this book earlier this morning and I couldnt put it down, Ive neglected my house, forgot to drink so Im dehydrated right now or eat and been reading all day, This book really exceeded all my expectations,
Someone Elses Fairytale is a story about Chloe, She is your typical girlnextdoor college girl who studies real hard and doesnt go out much, Together with her roommate she volunteers as an extra at one of Hollywood star Jason s movies, Jason and Chloe accidentally meet and Chloe makes sure that Jason knows that she doesnt want anything to do with him, But Jason doesnt give up that easy and soon they become friends,
This is the first book Ive read from Emily Tippetts and I must say Im completely sold, This book was just amazing and greatly written, Emily Tippetts makes you love the characters, From the moment I read about Jason Vanderholt I was completely in love with his character,
I just really love this great book, Thank god the second novel Nobodys Damsel came out earlier, Thats definitely a book high on my toreadnext list!
This is a classic boy meets girl Cinderella love story that will tickle those fantasy taste buds, whether you areorand beyond.
Chloe Winters isn't your averageyear old, although she is bright and is training in forensic science, her underlying views on all things fantastical and romantic became stale the moment her life took a dramatic turn for the worse when she was.
The day she nearly died at the hands of an estranged family member, was the day Chloe vowed to control her own life, and never again let a man get close on any physical level.
Never having had a serious relationship, I think it's safe to say that these traumatic turn of events stunted her emotional level intake, but she was cool with that! Well, that is until the day some sexy Hollywood hunk from her hometown returns home to shoot a movie at her school.
Immediately, Jason is taken with her honesty, and all the charms in the world will not deter her from showing a lack of interest, given his efforts.
Slowly we start to see a friendship blossom, with honesty at the forefront,
When things start to take another turn, and the man that hurt Chloe is released from jail, Jason proves his worth and helps support her through the ordeal, proving once again that his interest in Chloe comes from within, which evidently starts to build a strong foundation, and gradually their friendship turns into something more.
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On the downside, Jason's gruelling work commitments prove a hardship, and we watch these two kids struggle with coming to terms with foreign emotions, long distance separation and tabloid press.
This is a great YA story, a very lighthearted read that makes you smile,
I loved Jason, he is perfect boyfriend material, that we do tend to only really find in books, but the escapism was a pleasant one.
Chloe grated on me sometimes, she seemed to be quite difficult at times, and her cold nature made me wonder what Jason saw in her, but her past was evidence of this, and therefore understandable.
I would have liked to have some further elaboration at the end, but that's a personal preference thing,
There are no intimate moments in this book, except some kissing and canoodling which makes this a great book for teenagers and adults alike, I am awarding this feel good story a worthystars, I expected this book to be a typical frivolous romance novel, What it was is annoying, I get that she's just a "normal" girl who wants to be independent, but making a federal case every time he wants to buy you a cup of coffee! Get over it!
Also, I thought there were WAY too many story lines happening.
There was the one with the best friend and the one with the housemate and the one with the brother and the one with the niece, . . all in addition to the one with the movie star and grad school,
It was, as I was looking for, a romance novel, but it could have used a little more frivolity in my opinion,.stars. But the things that brought it down in rating are perhaps more interesting to me than the things that worked perfectly,
So here's what my plan for the other night looked like: spend a half an hour or so organising my shelves here, write up The Obsidian Mirror, and then whatever.
Here's what happened: spent that half an hour, but in the process addedbooks to my toread shelf andto my keepaneyeonit shelf, Started reading the one added to my keepaneyeonit shelf Someone Else's Fairytale, obviously and read until I'd finished it, in the process breaking my own practice of avoiding reading ebooks at night.
And suffering the consequences, unfortunately,
You can just stick with the short version, which is that I enjoyed this book a lot, somewhat to my own surprise, I probably wouldn't have read it had I not seen sitelinkStephanie's praise for it, but I'm very picky about romance and haven't warmed to the few books classed as new adult I've tried.
I ended up liking virtually all of the characters, rooted for the romance, loved the Albuquerque setting which made me wish all over again that we'd gone to live in New Mexico instead of Tuscon, a gazillion years ago, and generally just fell into the book very happily.
One thing that surprised me a lot was that there was no sex in the novel, I hate the terminology "clean romance", because of the obvious implication that all sex is dirty, but I'm guessing this is on a lot of lists of clean romances.
The fact that the heroine of the book is a virgin at Someone Elses Fairytale's beginning and close was much more of a surprise to me because I'd seen the tags of new adult and romance, without any qualifiers: neither the aforementioned "clean" nor "Christian".
It's very unusual because Chloe doesn't choose not to have sex for religious reasons, She has a best friend male who wears a "purity ring" who obviously has made his decision for religious reasons, but she just says it's something she's not ready to deal with while she's finishing a very demanding college degree.
Which is absolutely fair enough, and initially makes sense for her character, as one of the realistic “reallifeisunfair” aspects of the book is that Chloe has to work a lot harder to get where she wants to go, because she was poor and went to a school in a poor district.
It makes sense, that is, while she's going out with guys she obviously doesn't care about that much we see the end of one such relationship, and see her typical behavior has been waiting to have The Talk until the guy says "no sex, no dating", and then its over.
But it makes a lot less sense when she gets into a very complicated relationship with someone about whom she cares deeply, And the lack of good sense is compounded by the fact that when she's been involved with er, spoiler for seven months and has finished university, they still haven't really communicated about how they each feel about not having had sex, let alone exactly why shes isn't ready to think about it.
And then spoiler unavoidable here, sorry
This all seemed more than a bit puzzling until I read a bit more about the author, and here I have to make apologies for going all authorial intentionish on her.
Her first romances were written for an LDS publishing house, and when I read that, I thought I might understand why Chloe, though only rather nominally Christian she considers herself one but admits she only sometimes goes to church on thebiggies, nonetheless feels like a character who would read more consistently if she were waiting till shes married to have sex for religious reasons.
But with a religious writer writing a nonreligious book with bleedthrough, Id maybe have expected some bad consequence for Chloes roommate, who does start having sex with her boyfriend in what Chloe considers a fairly short space of time.
And then moves in with him and gets pregnant, Its not even remotely a “see what happens to Bad Girls” kind of pregnancy though, confirmed by the fact that she and her BF are really excited about it and are seen after the babys born, clearly a very committed and happy family.
As well as that theres another nice twist, which highlights the fact that purity has to go a lot deeper than merely abstaining from sex before marriage if its to mean what it should.
So there are two strikes against this as a romance, generically speaking: the main couples inadequate communication about something very important to their relationship and and I say this as someone who actually prefers much less sexy times in her romance than is the norm a real lack of chemistry sizzle call it what you want between the two.
The first would normally be a serious flaw for me, as I hate the Big Misunderstandingthatcouldbeclearedupinminuteshonestcommunication as much as anyone, Here, however, I sort of felt as if I wanted to sit the two down and give them a bit of relationship counseling, rather than wanting to smack the author.
The second well, it would probably bother a lot of people more than it bothered me, but I only noticed it and noticed that in the second book Chloe herself felt that by the time they got married there was all the chemistry anyone could want.
Not that the reader gets anything more explicit in book!
The other thing that I found surprisingly effective was the portrayal of Chloes relationship with her mother.
Her mother is pretty useless, and deeply immature, and Chloe had to get herself through the horrific ordeal of her attack as a child without any real support from her mother.
Theres one scene in the book in which Chloe has to put that out to her mother, and her mother goes all wideeyed and childlike and reading it, I was gripped strongly by both the feelings that Chloe was kicking a puppy and that she had to go on because she wasnt going to be able to heal if she couldnt get her feelings out there.
Not comfortable, but welldone. What really impressed me is that she does manage to express it, and does get her mother to listen and their relationship does improve and in the second book theres more healing and growth and understanding on both sides of how things had been for the other.
No instalove, and no instahealing either, and the author gets a lot of credit for both,
Finally, I think Im right in saying that this is selfpublished, and in case others might see that and wonder if it means poor editing, it doesnt.
Not only that, but the formatting is really attractive more so than a lot of ebooks from big publishers, All in all, I found this a lovely read,
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