Have Glass Slippers, Will Travel
Title: Have Glass Slippers, Will Travel
Author: Lisa Cach
Publication Info:
Genre: Contemporary Romance/chick lit
Rating: <3 <3 <3
Cinderella is every little girl’s fantasy. The fairytale is not about marrying money and being rich, however, it’s about finding true love in a man who sees the real, compassionate, strong, beautiful woman beneath the facade of dirt and servitude. Eloisa James wrote a lovely article on the use of the Cinderella story in romance novels, most of which focus on the transformative nature of the story. Personally I’ve read a few that leave me with a “he likes her for her looks” icky feeling, but since I can’t remember any of the names of these we’ll just fugettaboutit. (Needless to say, I have a high bar for judging Cinderella stories – they need to be about self empowerment.) Have Glass Slippers, Will Travel happily satisfies this ideal and is humorous to boot.
Kati Orville is an out-of-work tech writer from Seattle (whoot!). She adopts Oprah as her personal mentor and has a series of very funny dreams in which Oprah, actor Ian Richardson, and an iguana show her the path to true happiness. (A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep…) Kati decides what she wants is the fairytale: to marry royalty and live in a palace. She flies to London to find her dream, crashing a society wedding, meeting the queen at the Ascot, and gracing the tabloids in full glory in the process. Unfortunately she finds herself not attracted to the polished but unctuous Viscount Stanley, but to his sloppy organic farmer cousin Will Eland. Can money buy happiness? Is love enough to survive a life of poverty? She must discover for herself if what she really wants is the castle or the true love of finding the prince of her heart. (Guess which one she picks?)
The book is not subtle in addressing the questions of true happiness and the value of money and the secondary characters of Trevor and Helena are one-dimensional, but it’s delightfully charming non-the-less. Kati and Will are both quirky and endearing. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a light hearted read and certainly anyone who likes Cinderella.
Tags: "romance novels", book review, chic lit, Cinderella, contemporary romance, Lisa Cach
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