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Summary: Dissapointment
Review: After reading "The Big Bad Wolf Tells All" (which was amazing) I was expecting some great things from this book. Instead, I found novel with too much talking and sentimental feeling and some pretty sketchy reasons for various occurences.
The characters spent a huge amount of time discussing with each other, repeating the same ideas and getting nowhere. The plot had dozens of holes in it and although the romance was good, there was just too much happening and it got swallowed up a little bit by the rest of the story.
Read this if you want a lot of chatting and a bit of romance. Could be good if you were really bored.
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Summary: Great characters - a fun read!
Review: Does the romance succeed? Yes. But does the plot succeed? No. This novel leads you on and makes you think that the plot is actually about the heroine's love life and her strained relations with her own family. But the second half of the novel is clearly about playing "secret agent" and has little to do with the emotional development of the heroine. [...] Save yourself the dissapointment of this unsatisfying read and pick up a different book.
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Summary: Total plot failure
Review: Does the romance succeed? Yes. But does the plot succeed? No. This novel leads you on and makes you think that the plot is actually about the heroine's love life and her strained relations with her own family. But the second half of the novel is clearly about playing "secret agent" and has little to do with the emotional development of the heroine. She gets her man but never reconciles with her father. Save yourself the dissapointment of this unsatisfying read and pick up a different book.
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Summary: A Fun Contemporary Romance!
Review: I found this to be a fun contemporary romance for the most part. There were slow period throughout the book that kept me from giving this book a higher score. Ms. Kauffman has managed to include humor and provide a rather entertaining twist to the whole Cinderella storyline.Picture it...two sisters vastly different. Pepper loves to be pampered, shop, and travel. Darby is happiest on her horse ranch, can't be bothered with flying, and her idea of shopping means one store and the end result being jeans. Darby's life is about to be turned upside down when her baby sister calls from South America and askes Darby to fill in and play hostess to their father's very important client. Darby says no way. This means she has to get dressed up, leave her precious horses, and horror of horrors get on a plan and fly to D.C.. Of course she does this, she loves her sister but the beauty spa (Glass Slipper Inc.) is not what she counted on. Never mind the hunky Shane Morgan that calls the three leaders of the spa Godmothers. Shane is back in D.C. because his grandmother has passed away and the huge Morgan assests are now his. Now, instead of traveling the world he is sitting in meetings and working almost 20 hours a day. The one thing that keeps him sane are the memories of the sweet Darby. Now fate seems to be set on putting these two people together, over, and over, and well...you get the picture. Now somehow they are both going to have to finish what they started not only for their families but between the two of them. Can they make this relationship work? Again this was a fun story but at times lagged. This is really more of a mainstream novel then a full out romance. Darby and Shane have great chemistry and the three godmothers of Glass Slipper Inc. are great secondary characters. You are in for a nice read if you pick up this book.
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Summary: Fun summer read!
Review: I have to disagree with a reader who posted previously. I am also a long term resident of the DC Metro area who found Cinderella Rules witty, sexy, and just plain fun. I've had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Kauffman at a local signing and happen to know she is a life long resident to the area. As to the inconsistencies noted? Department stores in this area are notorious for being understaffed and many is the time I've been overlooked, regardless of dress. This is also a work of fiction, and my feeling is, it only has to be possible, not probable. As for the centuries old stone mansion? Who knows. I guess artistic license doesn't bother me as much as it apparently does others. I'm more interested in a good story. Kauffman has written stories involving immortals and ghosts, too, but I doubt she actually interviewed any. Oddly enough, I managed to enjoy those stories just fine. I can't wait to read Dear Prince Charming in a few weeks. Go Glass Slipper, Inc.!
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Summary: One More 5 ***** for Donna Kauffman
Review: I love all Donnas Glass Slipper books. This one is a fun read. Her humor is always great. Thanks again Donna.
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Summary: A terrific light-hearted read!!!
Review: I'm completely blown away at the reviews about incorrect details. Having lived in the MD/DC area for most of my life, I can honestly say that at no point did I find any problem with Ms. Kauffman's portrayal of the area. I loved this book. I found it to be an extremely funny, light-hearted book about a women who is thrown into an unfamiliar and uncomfortable situation, and finds herself falling in love with the one person who really understands where she's coming from. I challenge her critics to lighten up a bit. This is not a historical novel based on hundreds of years of documented fact, but a witty work of fiction designed to be a fun read and offer some escape and humor in everyday life. I not only think that Ms. Kauffman accomplishes all of that, and more, but I for one, cannot wait for the next book in the series.
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Summary: Don't you wish it was you?
Review: In this enormously funny novel by author Donna Kauffman, you will have the pleasure of experiencing the acerbic wit of Darby Langdon, a tomboy turned beauty by a few unique "fairy godmothers". Darby, who falls in love at just the wrong time with the sexy Shane Morgan, agrees to undergo a lifestyle transformation at the reputed Glass Slipper, Inc. in order escort a colleague of her father in high Washington, DC society. From the first page, readers can relate to Darby's fear of flying, her preference for jeans, the pain of eyebrow hair removal, and her confused reaction to a man who seems to like her better when she is being herself. Add to this a sizzling shopping adventure and you too will want to be this Cinderella!
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Summary: Appalling.
Review: In what I find a troubling trend in the romance book industry, this author took what should have been a 50-75 page short story, and shamelessly stretched it into a full-length book by repeating the same character thoughts over and over and making the print larger. All so the publisher could rip off readers by selling for $11.00 what was worth no more than $5.
Donna Kauffman has written some good short stories and books. This is not one of them. The plot is stupid, insulting and completely unbelievable. Not a single aspect of this story would appeal to a woman of the 21st Century. The characters were atrocious. Was I supposed to believe super-rich, super beautiful Darby would for one minute agree to be waxed, plucked and otherwise bullied by The Glass Slipper's glamour nazis? Was I supposed to like the fact that she was so shallow, she actually felt insecure about the fact that she preferred cowboy boots and jeans to high heels and dresses? Was I supposed to feel sorry for "poor-me-I-have-such-a-burden-to-bear" Shane? Was I supposed to find his self-absorbed, narcissistic character appealing?
The plot was also atrocious. It went from dumb to dumber. When it turned out that ditsy, airhead Pepper was a secret agent, I finally gave up and stopped reading. I don't care how Darby and Shane resolve their superficial relationship issues. Or how they foiled Stefan the robot. The only good thing about reading this book is that I didn't pay for it; I checked it out at my local library for free.
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Summary: fine contemporary romance
Review: Montana rancher Darmilla "Darby" Landon is very comfortable in jeans on her spread though that gives her international business mogul father apoplexy. She takes after her deceased mother while her younger sister Pepper, though frivolous especially with men, is a chip off the old male block. Pepper needs Darby to cover for her escorting a Swedish businessman in DC while she has a tryst with her latest forever love. Reluctantly Darby agrees and receives a make over by Glass Slipper, Inc. At the DC airport, Shane Morgan notices the Glass Slipper, Inc limo and bums a ride from his deceased grandma's company. In the limo he meets Darby, who he considers a beautiful Amazon Cinderella. As he struggles with dealing with the business aspects of his inheritance and she with being an escort following the Cinderella Checklist, they fall in love as Shane goes out of his way to see his Amazon sweetheart. However, she is Big Sky while he is international risk taker making anything permanent seem remote. Though it is difficult to accept that Darby has no finesse to pull off a role change, fans will appreciate this fine contemporary romance. The tale stars two attractive individuals who have similar ideals as to what they want from life thought neither realizes at first that is so of their companion. The support cast, including the male lead's deceased grandma, provides just enough oomph so that the audience fully grasps what motivates Shane and Darby and why. The audience will appreciate learning the Glass Slipper rules of making a worldly princess out of a country bumpkin. Harriet Klausner
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