I honestly wanted to like this book more than I did. For instance, we learn that Cinderella was actually a suicidal cutter. Lil gives little bits and pieces of exactly what happened on the fateful night when Cinderella didn’t actually go to the ball. I enjoyed the narrative style of the book. By initiating this match, Lil hopes to repent for her past mistakes and return to the fairy world. George owns the bookstore and has rich parents who invited him to a ball, the perfect first date for the second Cinderella and her prince. Lil decides that she will play matchmaker with Veronica and her boss, George. Veronica is very magnetic, outgoing, and in my opinion, a wee bit annoying. One day, a young woman named Veronica comes into the bookstore where Lil works. As punishment for falling in love with a human and failing to unite Cinderella and the prince, Lil was banished from the fairy world and forced to live among humans. Lil screwed up and fell for the prince herself.

Because fairies obviously control the destinies of all humans. She had been tasked with getting Cinderella to the ball to meet the prince. So the book is the story of Lillian, a former fairy godmother. I hope I didn’t give too much away there. It’s a little disorienting that the author presented something as reality through pretty much the whole book only to take it all back in the last chapter. I guessed it might end that way at some points. There was moderate foreshadowing that hinted at the ending.

Godmother was a book with a twist ending.

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