Through the ups and downs, they are sticking to her like glue whether she likes is or not. They listen to her cry her eyes out over her scum-bag ex-husband, they help create the Naughty Princess Club full force, they push her to break out of her pristinely, ordered world. This book is centered so much around empowering female friendship I was jumping for joy! At Cindy's lowest point, these other two zany women come crashing into her life and decide to stay. This book is so much fun! Sevic is magic with her words and wit. ![]() When the women are invited to wear their costumes to a party where they're mistaken for strippers, Cindy, Ariel, and Belle realize that a career change could be the best way to make their money problems go bippity-boppity-boo.īut can structured Cindy approach a stripper pole without sanitizing wipes? And could the blue-eyed anti-prince that has been crossing her path become Cindy's happily ever after? At the Stroke of Midnight is a hilarious, empowering story where princesses can save themselves while slaying in stilettos. Her husband was once her knight in shining armor, but now he's run off with all their money…and the babysitter.ĭressed as a princess at the annual Halloween block party on Fairytale Lane, she meets two other “princesses” also facing money troubles: antique store owner Ariel and librarian Isabelle. Between being the President of the PTA and keeping her home spotless without a hair (or her pearls) out of place, her life was a dream come true. Once upon a time Cynthia was the perfect housewife. This trio (so far) of books brings us to Fairytale Lane and three women embarking on a new business venture to make it rain. Tara Sevic is a fairly new to me author with witty and amusing characters and a plethora of men to make me swoon.Īt The Stroke of Midnight is book one of her modern day fairytale/Disney princess retellings, The Naughty Princess Club. Today, let me introduce you to a new version of Cinderella. It's fun and I enjoy a clever retelling of a familiar story. While most of the stories I've brought you are Beauty and the Beast, I do love when I find a good rebranding of other fairy tales/Disney princesses. She takes it up & goes into the stormy floodwater & drowns while still clutching the cat.I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn I love a good fairytale retelling. The cat eventually does return, but fatally mangled-it drags itself in & dies. One dreary November evening Lucy doesn't come back from his nightly stroll. After the summer passes, she sells paintings to get along until Christmas. She then writes her husband 2 letters asking for 50 pounds in each one or else she wont "be able to come back" or she "shall be forced to return." Receiving a large sum, she rents a cottage & moves in with the cat Lucy. She takes in a cat, that reminds her (she is now Aurelia) of her cousin Lucy & names the Tom, Lucy. After leaving him, she goes to a guesthouse in Bedford, where she stays a few weeks. After selling her wedding ring, she meets a man whom she calls Ithamore, who takes her home with him. ![]() Ridpath, who has taken on the character of Aurelia Lefanu. Lucy's cousin Aurelia, who had exerted a great power over her, had died recently. Lucy Ridpath, a married, plain, middle-aged woman, had been gone from her London home for over 2 days before her husband Aston decided that she was missing.
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