Not That Kind of Ever After
A Novel
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Fairytale meets feminism in Luci Adams's Not That Kind of Ever After, a frothy adventure of one woman’s journey to claim happily ever after in times of serial dating, swiping right, and the quest to find your soulmate.
Bella Marble’s life isn’t what she imagined. Instead of an author, she’s a receptionist at a small press. Instead of happily married, she’s single, and her lovey-dovey parents are divorcing. And to top it off, her best friend of twenty-nine years, Ellie Mathews, is moving out and marrying the heinously boring Mark. (He’s not worthy of her. No one could be). Bella feels rudderless, only slightly soothed by time spent with Ellie’s (not hot) brother, (he’s not hot) Marty (okay, he’s hot. But he’s also the aggravating brother she never had—right)?
When Marty recommends Bella stop looking for “the one” and just have fun, Bella finds a new, empowered side of herself. But when she posts a fairy-tale retelling of a disastrous one night stand on a storytelling app, all of a sudden, Bella has become @B.Enchanted. And she’s gone viral.
Now, Bella’s in a fight with Ellie, her new roommates are so, deeply, weird, and the pressure is mounting to find new fairy tales to write about—but she’s got to live them first.
“As side splittingly hilarious as it is empowering and emotional, Not That Kind of Ever After is a sparkling debut.”--Helena Hunting, bestselling author
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Adams's spirited contemporary debut follows hopeless romantic Bella Marble, 29, who dreams of being a successful writer and marrying Prince Charming. Unfortunately, she's battling writer's block while working as a receptionist and her efforts at "husband hunting" have only turned up frogs. When her parents, whose relationship Bella has always idolized, announce they're divorcing, Bella has a crisis of faith. Her best friend's attractive but insufferable twin brother, Marty, suggests that she stop focusing on forever and instead have fun dating around: "If you started trying to find someone you actually wanted to spend the night with you'd have much better luck." Bella takes his advice and her renewed outlook on relationships inspires her to write. She posts fairy tale–ified versions of her dating misadventures online, gaining viral success that leads her to seek out more experiences she can turn into material. But when the steps she takes to get life to imitate art backfire, she learns that her real Prince Charming has been there all along—and, more importantly, that life is not a fairy tale. As much a story of self-discovery as a romance, there's plenty of secondhand embarrassment here, but Bella remains a heroine to root for throughout. This is a charmer.
