Review: Annoying cast of characters!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2012
Goodreads Description- A modern Cinderella story with an Irish twistCan her dreams come true with the help of some unlikely fairy godpeople?Katie Dillon doesn't believe in dreams and fairy tales. She has a plan for her life, which doesn't include falling for charmer Fin Dunbar--again. But while caring for her niece, Katie realizes Fin and her dreams might be just what she needs. When family secrets, old arguments, and new feelings cause Katie and Fin to clash, they have to decide whether their love is make-believe or certain sure.This book was ok for me.  For some reason I had a difficult time following what was going on because there were so many characters and the author used many pronouns and I wasn't sure at times who she was referring too.  I really didn't like how Katie's dad treated her at all.  There was no point in this book that I liked in any way.  He treated her with complete disrespect and called her "girl".  If that were my father, I would not put up with his behavior.  I did like the secrecy behind the family but so much of it was hard to believe.  For example when a certain man just upped and left his family for the woman he had been pining for for 20 years.  This man had a health emergency and all of the sudden his wife said "Oh darling, I should have given you a divorce years ago!"  And then he went home, packed his things, and left....and everyone was ok with that!!  No way would a wife in "real-life" be ok with what he did to her.Actually as I am writing this and thinking about the characters, they were all annoying in their own little ways.  I realize that there has to be some sense of realizing that ok this is fiction...it isn't real but come on...these people were just plain horrid to each other and were all absolutely miserable.  And this was supposed to be a romance love story.The writing was pretty loose and, like I said, hard to follow at times.  However, now after thinkig about it, I was going to go with 3 stars but I think I am going to bump it down to 2 stars because in reality the characters were jerks and had no idea what they really wanted, and when they did, they certainly went about it in the wrong way by treating each other with disrespect and plain old meanness.  I am glad this was a freebie.  2 stars.