Review: Rock Chick Meets Walt Disney and Mr. Ed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2014
aka From the Sublime (Golden Dynasty) to the Ridiculous (Fantastical)This is Book 3 in the Fantasyland Series.  I feel like Kristen Ashley is playing a joke on her readers.  Only sheer stubbornness (and the fact that I had already downloaded it) made me read Golden Dynasty, which was such a wonderful surprise after the let-down of Wildest Dreams.Ms. Ashley often creates over the top type characters.  That is not an issue for me, as when I read her books, I know what I am getting.  What is unusual in Fantastical is absolutely how Rock Chick/Disneyesque this story is.Cora is possibly one of Ms. Ashley`s most annoying, least believable female leads. It doesn't matter that our heroines come from Seattle in this series instead of Denver.  Apparently, all American 30 year olds talk like... erm, ...hum freakin' adorable (and by adorable I mean ADORABLE) awesome teenagers.  The men aren`t just gorgeous, they are g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s.  For those of you who enjoy spelling, there is a lot of it in this book.  At no time does Cora ever attempt to adjust her vocabulary to the formal setting."Are you well, Cora? he called.  This is not a man named, "Dude."  I felt like I was in the middle of a Dick and Jane story with some of the conversations.  How many women in their 30`s still say DUDE?!!"Well, I hate you more than I hated you before."  "I don`t really care."  "And I hated you a lot before," I informed him.  Now that I think about it, this pretty much sums up how I feel about Fantastical.