I've been a Rudnick fan since, let's say 1989 when his last novel, I'll Take It, was published (in the meantime I've been forced to keep up with his script writing). I love this guy. I have no idea how he manages to come out of nowhere with a Cinderella story featuring a dull teenaged trailer girl f...
This review is also available on my blog, Bows & Bullets Reviews Becky Randle is just an ordinary eighteen year old girl with no real goals in life. She just graduated from high school when her mother dies and she is tasked with going through all her mothers stuff. Within it she finds a mysterious p...
While I didn't love this book, I can say that it surprised me how much I ended up enjoying it. You might have seen me post how utterly baffled I was when I first started this. Paul Rudnick's story isn't something I've read before. It's completely out in left field, and yet that's what kept my attent...
Basic premise: after her mother’s death, average-but-not-remotely-glamorous 18 year-old Becky Randle meets Tom Kelly (a thinly-veiled Calvin Klein), the most famous designer in the world. Tom makes her a one-time offer: he’ll design three dresses, which she will wear as the model for Tom Kelly the b...
We all like to dream “what if.” One of my favorite movies is Pretty Woman where we have a young woman who was working the streets climb the ladder of success all because someone recognized that she had potential. Someone saw that she had more to offer society and eventually her life becomes a fair...
This goes to show how sexist I really am but I would not have known from the writing style that the female lead character was written by a guy. On par with Terry Pratchett in how real her thoughts and feelings are. So often when men write girls they make us one dimensional, and stupid. I have a hard...
Edit: I have been assured by another reader who finished that the book does not end up being as shallow as the beginning was. That's good and I am so glad. I still can't continue though as I was bored and strongly disliked the writing. :(DNF. So wait. In order for Becky to stay the most beautiful wo...
On Becky Randle's 18th birthday, her mother dies, her final words imploring her to take a chance on magic if she gets it. Later, while going through her mother's things, Becky finds a phone number for reclusive designer Tom Kelly, who subsequently offers to make her three dresses - and transform her...
A good concept for a story, but the writing was a little dull. I found myself skimming over a lot of it, but I loved how this was a modern, twisted fairy tale that reminded me of the Grimm brothers, with a wry sense of humor. Some parts of the story seemed a little implausible, a little unrealisti...
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