Not That Kind of Ever After by Luci AdamsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Bella dreams of being a writer but the closest she's got is a job as receptionist at a publishing house. Back in the day she won best receptionist of the year (or some such title) in the firm four years running, but nowadays she's just going through the motions. Bella has been looking for 'The One', her own Prince Charming, for years with no luck, then two life-changing events (for her) make her decide to change her tune and have fun instead, which turns into a series of unfortunate one-night stands.
When an obnoxious client gets a small fortune advance on his new book, based on his posts about his awful dates on a site called B-Reader, Bella is intrigued enough to go onto B-Reader to see what's there and feels it is the ideal forum for her to try writing because you only post one chapter at a time, and what better source of material than her terrible dates - they are the stuff of fairy-tales, just not the good ones.
As Bella's readers climb ever higher her chapters take over her life, leading her to do things she would never normally do, like fall out with friends and take reckless risks (question is there any other kind of risk?). What the reader can see but Bella can't is that there is her own Prince Charming waiting in the wings, and he's not a fairy-tale.
It took me a while to get into this. Bella is very immature, despite her age, and has a lot of the 'me, me, me' vibe about her which didn't immediately endear her to me. But the book is genuinely funny, as are the situations that Bella gets into trying to increase her readership.
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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