Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me

By: Julie Wright

Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer

Charlotte Kingsley loves to write and dreams of having her reimagined fairy tales published, but she keeps getting rejected over and over. And to top it all off, her best friend, Anders, gets engaged, making her realize she’s going to lose the Prince Charming who lives next door. After yet another rejection letter, Charlotte decides to switch gears. What if she wrote a book about celebrating women for who they really are instead of trying to create a fantasy world for them to visit? She could call it The Cinderella Fiction, fill it with practical advice for living authentically, become ridiculously successful, and then find the confidence to tell Anders how she feels before it’s too late.

Encouraged with her plan, Charlotte’s new book practically writes itself, and a small publisher offers to publish it. As it’s a small company with limited resources, Charlotte decides to sink money into hiring a premier publicity firm to make her book a best seller. She also discovers that Anders has called off his engagement and wants to try a relationship with Charlotte. Suddenly her fairy tale dreams seem to be coming true.

However, Charlotte’s publicist has very specific ideas about how to market the book - and the author. Charlotte, with her average looks, cluttered apartment, and penchant for ice cream, must undergo a total transformation in a social media makeover. People who see Charlotte through a carefully curated Instagram account will relate and naturally want to buy her book.

At first, Charlotte is excited to enter this fantasy world and play “dress up”, and Anders reluctantly agrees to go along with it, even though it means he’s largely out of the picture. But the toll of her new life soon proves exhausting. Telling women to “be authentic” even while she herself is undergoing elaborating staging to get just the right image makes her feel like a fraud. Meanwhile, her relationship with Anders is falling apart, since he suspects their relationship is just another one of her carefully curated images.

Charlotte must decide what she believes in: the fairy tale persona or the woman Anders has always loved - before he’s gone forever.

©2019 Julie Wright (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Good love story

I really enjoy a love story that has all the components of a healthy relationship and isn’t based on sex! I get SOOO TIRED of the books that just jump in bed.
This book did have a lot of character but seem to take forever to get to where it was going. I had a hard time staying tuned. Way to much mundane detail.
The narrator seemed very slow. I would like to hear her in another book before I pass judgement.

Tried but could not finish

After fast forwarding through her mothers constant negative ranting and her dragging descriptions full of angst, I finally quit listening when she became derisive with her boyfriend a second time. Glad I didn’t pay for this.

boring

Perhaps I misread what this book was about, but it was boring. Not my cup of tea.

I love this book so much

Sweet, endearing characters. A Diction piece with self help wisdom. I would love to read the Cinderella fiction!

Love this author. Another great book.

I will follow this author from now on. The has a way with words that makes me smile my way through each story.

Godmothers

This is a favorite for me and all Fairy Godmothers should read and take advice!

Fairytale-like

This is a clean romance (especially for aspiring writers). Just relax and listen to this fairytale for adults. It could be made into a Hallmark movie 🙂

Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me

We need more clean romance like this on Audible. Please make more available in the future.

I'm dying for the Cinderella Fiction!

This is the 3rd Julie Wright book I've listened to, and it is the best one so far (even though I really enjoyed the others, too). I love chick lit, but it can be difficult to find one with a measure of depth in the characters and relationships. Wright delivers! I loved the realistic relationship issues that were faced in the book and how they were resolved. And, during the whole book, Wright teases us with snippets from the fictional nonfiction book Charlotte (Letty) had written. I would LOVE to hear that in its entirety. You've left us wanting more, Julie Wright! Please make it a reality!

Frustrating but interesting read.

I liked it. The story is unique and a live story but just a sprinkle of romance. The love story takes place between the MC Charlotte and herself.

The relationships she forges with her best friend, sister and mentor are nicely developed. It was easy to fall in love with each, but not so with the heroine. At least not for me. I didn't like Char, Lottie or Charlotte. She was oh so self absorbed, wishy washy, and easily swayed by attaining fame. Though the book end in a HFN, the road to getting there was extremely frustrating. Yep, I wanted to throttle her most of the time. Even when she finds her voice she still abandons her sister to an emotionally abusive home life, and still concerned about her own success over her BBF needs. <sigh>.

Since I have loved this author in the past I pretend that this is a fairytale with an unwritten wonderful epilog detailing how she uses all she has learned to better the lives of those around her and continues to find successas herself not a marketed plastic image. (fingers crossed)

Narration was excellent!