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Charlie Glass's Slippers: A Very Modern Fairy Tale (2014)

by Holly McQueen(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1476727058 (ISBN13: 9781476727059)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Atria Books

review 1: Who doesn't love a good fairytale! Charlie Glass's Slippers by Holly McQueen is a very modern fairy tale complete with a very modern Cinderella, Charlie Glass.Charlie's father, Elroy Glass, who heads a shoe empire, leaves the company to Charlie in his will. Our Cinderella, the plump Charlie, is left to deal with a wicked and cruel but glamorous stepmother and older half sisters. I had a wicked stepmother so I can complete relate! And of course you need a Prince Charming for a Cinderella fairy tale. Or more than one!Charlie has always been the chubby, ugly duckling sister. Her inheritance prompts her to head to a California boot camp to shed some pounds and have a makeover. But does being slim and attractive make your life perfect? The reader will enjoy following Charlie's... more transitions and realizations.Is the story predictable...of course. But that doesn't matter. You'll enjoy the story! It would make a great movie! Wonderful chick lit book! Great romance and great comedic tale.
review 2: **I got this through the Goodreads First Reads giveaway by Atria.**3.5 stars...I was SO excited when I found out I won this book. The plot line instantly grabbed my attention. I love retelling of fairy tales and what not so a retelling of Cinderella was exciting!I started out loving this book. Part one of the book was great. It made me laugh and I fell in love with Charlie. She was funny, smart, self conscious (but who isn't?), and an all around great character. The other characters were also all very well rounded believable characters that I either liked, disliked or thought were just plain silly according to who it was. And the storyline was perfect and moved along at a very nice pace.Then comes part 2 which takes place after she went to boot camp and it just went a bit downhill from there. It starts off ok enough but when she got back she was SO obsessed with her appearance I wanted to crawl through the book and strangle her!! She was so ridiculous and self centered! And honestly she seemed to be a bit less intelligent. It was still easy to read but at the same time I started to get that "I just want to finish this book" mentality. Part 3 was better the book came together a little bit and I was so happy that it did. It also had some huge surprises. However because of the surprises the ending sucked. It pretty much is left wide open and you don't really know what happens. The ending isn't very polished I guess you can say. less

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