Unlock Now Operácia Popoluška (Suddenly Cinderella, #1) Crafted By Hope C. Tarr Released Through Publication

was a great introduction to this series, Macie is a hot headed liberal and Ross is an ultra conservative family man that are at each other's throats professionally.
When Macie goes undercover to find a deep dark secret she can use against him, she doesn't expect to find the type of guy she could fall in love with and a teenage daughter that needs her.
This was a very cute story with lots of laughts and "awwwww" moments, I especially loved the relationship Macie developed with Ross's daughter, Samantha, It was very sweet and touching how they helped each other out and in the end Samantha was a very important force bringing them together.
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A fairy tale romance with a modern view and human twists,

Macie Graham is always after the best story, But her last article was smeared by famous radio personality Ross Mannon, Now seeking revenge she will go under what she calls Operation Cinderella and dig up dirt on him.


Ross is a very conservative person with very high standards and opinion about how people should think and live.
The article he found by Macie on On Top magazine was about an issue that he does not agree with at all.


After Macie meets Ross while applying for the job as his housekeeper and helper with his teenage daughter, he thinks he has met the perfect woman.
But little does he know that she stands for everything that he despises and that she is after his ruin, since he nearly made her lose her job after his Ross's Rant show where the magazine lost a major sponsor.
Now as they both think they have the discovered the perfect person they could fall in love with they must face the past and their own mistakes if they want to have a HEA.


I really liked this book because like any fairy tale it has a moral.
To me it was like the saying, don't judge a book by its cover, While it may seem that both Macie and Ross are a certain way that may seem like they don't care about others, there is a reason for the way they think and act.
And if you look a little deeper you may understand them better,

The epilogue is a total cliffhanger for future books about other characters in this story, which now I can't wait for them to be released so I can read them.


Sounds like more fun ahead,
This review was orginally published at DearAuthor, com

Dear. Ms. Tarr,

Halfway through your new fairytale Operation Cinderella, I began to wonder: Where is the woman who wrote Vanquished and what have you done with her

Vanquished, which you published in, is a kickass historical about a suffragette and the photographer who has been hired to ruin her.
The characters, the plot, and the setting in that novel are all excellent its a book Ive read several times and was thrilled to see is finally available digitally.


Operation Cinderella is a silly, saccharine, sexist tale that reminded me of a Disney film if Disney films used phrases like “clit tease” and “ass” and “laving tongue.
” Its a book that takes a smartmouthed, sexually active, brassy Manhattanite and turns her into Ms.
Donna Reed, complete with an apron and a talent for making huevos rancheros, By the time I came to the “Its A Wonderful Life” angelsarewatchingoveryou shoutout epilogue, I honestly wondered if the woman who wrote Vanquished had been replace by a Stepford writer.


Operation Cinderella began with a timely and interesting premise, Macie Graham, the features editor of On Top magazine, “one of the hottest, hippest womens magazines to come on the scene since Jane,” has a hangover, a belly ring, an all black wardrobe, and a loathing for sanctimonious conservatives.
Shes currently enraged by the behavior of the hottest Republican radio star in the country, Ross Mannon.
On a recent broadcast, during one of “Rosss Rants,” the man railed against an article written by Macie.


Hed gotten his hands on a copy of On Tops current issue, spotted Macies feature article on the growing number of parents opting to prevent unwanted pregnancies by putting their teenage daughters on birth control before they had sex“Forget the Fairy Tale.
Teen Sex is Fact, Not Fiction”and made the magazine the target of that mornings “Rosss Rant.
” Hed ended by giving out On Tops website, mailing address, and tollfree phone number, urging his listeners to make their voices heard.


Within minutes the magazines overloaded server had crashed and the switchboard had lit up like a billboard in Times Square.


Along with the phone calls, which had ranged from hostile to deranged, thered been emails to the corporate Powers That Be denouncing Macies article as trash.
Macie hadnt really worried much about that, On Tops readership and Ross Mannons radio audience were planets apart, a separate species of entertainment news consumer.
But when a major advertising account, Beauté, a manufacturer of highend hair care products targeting the “tween” to teen market, pulled the ad spread they ran in every issue, citing the morals clause in their contract and concerns over branding and corporate image, well, that was another story.


Macie is now worried about her job and will do just about anything to save it.
So when she hears Ross talking on his show about how difficult its been for him to find a suitable nanny for hisyear old daughter Samanthahes been unable to find a “a role model, a lady who models the kind of core values” he talks about on his showMacie decides to go undercover.
Shell turn herself into pious, sweet, domestically gifted Martha Jane Gray, infiltrate his home, and find out all the nasty dirt on him Macie just knows is there.
She calls it “Operation Cinderella, ”

The book plummeted from here,

Macie turns to her lovely gay friends her fairy godfriends who run a hair salon and, with their help, turns herself into Martha Jane.
She cuts her long dyed black hair into a “Martha Stewart” do and has it returned to her natural color, a lovely multihued blonde.
She pulls out the belly ring, takes off all her heavy makeup, and, presto chango, shes ready for some serious investigative journalism.
Before she leaves, her friends give her a pair of very special shoes,

The vintage ruby velvetcovered high heel was in mint condition and dated from the late thirties or early forties, Macie surmised, based on the styling and exquisite detailing.
Amber crystals beaded the strap and the vamp above the peep toe, flashing like flawless canary diamonds.


Smiling broadly, Franc nodded, “Vintage Saks and first worn by the famous film star Maddie Mulligan, She had them on the night she received the news that she was nominated for an Oscar.
That same night she received a marriage proposal from international financier Carlos Banks, her fourth and final husband.
”

I think the four husband thing is to make sure readers dont think the film star is a standin for the perennially depressed Judy Garland who married five times.


Macie heads to DC, has one interview with Ross, who despite having a PhD in sociology and an awareness of the internet, is completely snookered by Martha Jane.
He hires her and she moves into his Watergate apartment, Macie, who secretly hires others to do the cooking and cleaning shes told Ross shes so fond of, sets about going through Rosss things and trying to bond with his daughter in order to get her to dish on her dad.
The latter is arguably the most morally egregious thing Macie does, Of course, within days of living in the Mannon household Macie has begun to fall for Ross and his spunky rebellious daughterwe know shes a rebel because the kid has tongue stud and wears heavy black eyeliner.


Ross is not only handsome, hes perfect dont let that silly Republican label fool youhe cares.
Hes just human enough to carry a storyhe frets about his lack of parenting skills and often orders pizza for dinner.
He thinks Martha Jane is beautiful, sweet, funny, and oh so easy to talk to and if it werent for his pesky sense of honor that tells him he shouldnt date his daughters livein nanny, hed totally ask her out.
Not sleep with her no! Ross doesnt do casual relationships he would just ask her out and treat her like a princess.


Miss Martha Jane deserves to be treated like a Cinderella after the Prince slipped on her special shoe because a long time ago in a place called Heavenly, Indiana, something bad happened to Martha Jane GrayMacies real name.
In fact, that whole ballsy, tough New York chic act was just a cover caused by the pain in Martha Janes past.
What Martha Jane has really needed all her life is a good man, a nice apron, and after hes declared his undying affection for her her first orgasm.


There are a few hiccups along the way so the book has some narrative weak sauce tension.
Will Ross love Martha Jane if he finds out shes an unethical liar Can the two find their happy ever after though Ross is a Republican and Macie is a “proud member of NOW” Does it matter that the shoes arent made of glass But, by the tales end, its clear good girls get the good guys and the good sex, especially if they learn how to cook.


I cant think of anyone Id recommend this book to, Really, though, do read Vanquished, I give Operation Cinderella a D,

Im off to order takeout, let the house got to hell, drink wine, and curse.


Sincerely,

Dabney This is a nice little romance between a divorcee with a teenage daughter and the journalist out to get him.
Macie believes Ross Mannon can't possibly be the goody two shoes he pretends to be on his conservative radio program.
She devises a plan to go undercover as his housekeeper in order to find out the truth.

Ross is after a good role model for his daughter who is going through some teenage angst.
When Martha Jane turns up all dolled up like Martha Stewart he thinks he's hit the jackpot.
The fact that he finds her attractive is a bonus, or a complication, whichever way you look at it.

This is an opposites attract story and we see Macie developing some of the characteristics of her pretend persona and we also see Ross is not the stiff judgemental guy he comes across as on the radio.
That was really sweet and I really liked Ross in particular,
The story is fairly straightforward with secrets and lies being the main conflicts, It is well written and nicely paced for a category length story, It has a satisfying happy ending,
What I didn't like:
, The link to join this story with the others in the Suddenly Cinderella series is a postscript with a fairly heavy handed Angel scenario with bells on.
It even references "It's a Wonderful Life" which is one of my keeper movies,
. The political stuff. I'm not an American and I assume I was supposed to find it amusing or that it added to the opposites attract theme.
It didn't. It just felt like I was being hit over the head with a political agenda, Perhaps it is too soon after the elections,
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