Rating: 
Summary: Fairy Tale Flop
Review: When I picked up the book I was hoping to read about a hopeless romantic from the Midwest who goes to New York to be whisked away into a happy ever after ending. Well, I suppose all that happens, but painfully so. The main character was too perfect, too flat, too contradictory. I've lived in the Midwest for several years now and the main character type just doesn't really exist here. And it really bothered me that he was out looking for love and "tricking" out twice by the end of the fourth chapter. Then the transitions were almost non-existent. Somehow between chapters one and two he moves to New York with no real explanation how he did it or how he felt about the move. I felt as though the reader is told something and is supposed to take it for granted that it happened, but is not allowed to share in the characters' experience. Overall it was a fairy tale. But it left me feeling cold, bored and could not wait to finish the book so I could start something else. I guess if I want fairy tales that make me feel warm and fuzzy I'll stick with the contemporary female British authors.
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