Good morning, friends.
I just finished ONCE UPON A DATE by Susan Hatler this morning. I had twenty minutes left last night when my kindle battery decided to take a long nap. LOL
Aspiring author Michelle
Moss meets her Prince Charming at a Masquerade Ball only to discover the man
behind the mask is Brooks Keller, the editor who just rejected her manuscript
and the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart.
It wasn’t a glass slipper that Michelle Moss left behind at the Masquerade Ball, but a beat up laptop. Her driver remained human, her ride didn’t turn into a pumpkin, and thank goodness she didn’t see any mice waiting for her in her condo. But Michelle did spontaneously kiss her masked Prince Charming and was determined to find him.
Tracking down her missing laptop using a locator app, she fully expected birds to sing, rice to fall from the sky, and the credits to roll when she found her potential true love. Instead, she found the editor, Brooks Keller, who rejected her modern fairytale manuscript. He told her the book was unrealistic, unimaginable, and unpublishable. Oh, and he’s also the ex who dumped her in high school.
Michelle urgently needs the book advance to bail her not-so-wicked but irresponsible stepbrother out of a financial mess. But she doesn’t want to change her fairytale ending. So, Michelle and Brooks make a deal: they will retrace her character’s steps from the book and if Brooks falls head over heels for Michelle then Brooks will publish the book Michelle’s way. If not, then Michelle will make the requested changes.
As Michelle tests out the life she always dreamed of, she discovers the chemistry with Brooks is still there after all these years. She knows Brooks is only playing the part of the hero, but everything feels so real. If she acts on her feelings, though, will he break her heart a second time?
Okay, longest blurb I've ever read. That aside, when I first searched on Amazon for 'new' contemporary romance, I'm not sure why Once Upon A Date popped up. This book was published in 2020 and is book six in the Do-Over Date series. So, you know what that means for me, right? LOL I may be reading more books in 2024 than I originally planned.
AS character arcs go, Ms Hatler showed the evolution of Michelle and Brooks very well. There was that aha moment for Michelle when she (and the reader) realize she is done being a door mat. Ms Hatler also showed Brooks' insecurities and how he overcomes them That's not a spoiler alert, by the way. That is a fact in Happy Ever After books.
The journey for Michelle and Brooks to get from where they used to be, where they are now and that Happy Ever After makes Once Upon A Date a great read.
I'm giving ONCE UPON A DATE:
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