Review: You've Read it Before Minus the Sex and Much Better
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
I finished this book simply t because I always finish a book I started but I couldn't wait to get the back cover closed. The instant I started reading  I saw  "Cinderella" in black and white ink right from page one. Complete with the stepsisters to the glass slippers and fairy godmother. The entire book was just Cinderella in a costume and I mean that literally. The main character (aka Cinderella) supports and thinks for her step sisters and of course the step mother. She is also a seamstress and has a small shop to support them. She winds up making costumes for three balls coming up. Well, what is a ball at without a palace or castle without a prince so off we go to complete that scenario!! You can either read or guess the rest of the story.There is only one sex encounter and it is a whopper and very explicit. I wouldn't call it porno and I wasn't surprised or upset about the sex 'scene' mainly because it was so far fetched to read about  'first time' virgin in the days of princes and castles and fairy godmothers knowing everything about sex and ready, willing and able to go at it multiple times in all kinds of positions all at once on the first encounter.  I think she stepped out of another book just for that chapter and then went back to the demure maid of that era.The book has delightful humor at times. I thought it was cute at first but it got tiring in a short time. Perhaps because the outcome was a no-brainer so quickly into the book. The author writes well and I sure appreciated the spell check and editing. That always grates on me. It was well done, just the wrong story for my taste and a tad lengthy for me. I will be avoiding fair tale romances and go back to the contemporary romance and I do enjoy a few touches of humor tossed in. Just not cover to cover.