Didi's Reviews > Seducing Cinderella

~~~~~~~~~~~ 3.5 STARS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This was very sweet. The only hang up I have with this book is an MMA fighter helping a woman with a makeover. Guys in General can express what they like on a woman but picking out a new wardrobe and giving a beautician advice about all the different makeup looks? Unlikely.
Luckily this fantasy spin on an otherwise sweet romance didn't last long! Reid and Lucie were believable as a coupe surprised to fall for each other while hatching out a plan for Lucie to land her dream man, while providing physical therapy for Reid. Little did she know that her dream man was under her nose the whole time.

Advice soon turns to lessons in intimacy and what Lucie thought she wanted for a successful relationship was not even close to what she ultimately needed. Reid never knew he could want the normal things in life but when the right woman comes along...

The book did get more interesting in the last half when the stakes got higher and the emotions ran rampant. Not to say it wasn't good in the first half but rather just picked up. I am a huge fan of friends to lovers/best friends sister--type stories. They seem to be more tender in nature, more fulfilling, maybe due to the history involved or the bottled up passion lain dormant for years.
This of course was a best friends sister tale, with the story continuing in Rules of Engagement, book 2 in this series. But don't fret, the story is resolved here between Reid and Lucie, ending as beautifully as I'd hoped for. Their tale continues but isn't the emphasis in book 2 since Lucie's best friend gets her chance there. And with Jackson, Lucie's brother and best friend to Reid, being the lucky guy ;-)) looking forward to continuing this series!