From Sarah Strohmeyer, author of Smart Girls Get What They Want, comes this romantic comedy about one girl’s summer job from hell. Think The Devil Wears Prada set in Disney World.
When cousins Zoe and Jess land summer internships at the Fairyland Kingdom theme park, they are sure they’ve hit the jackpot. With perks like hot Abercrombie-like Prince Charmings and a chance to win the coveted $25,000 Dream & Do grant, what more could a girl want?
Once Zoe arrives, however, she’s assigned to serve “The Queen”-Fairyland’s boss from hell. From spoon-feeding her evil lapdog caviar, to fetching midnight sleeping tonics, Zoe fears she might not have what it takes to survive the summer, much less win the money.
Soon backstabbing interns, a runaway Cinderella, and cutthroat competition make Zoe’s job more like a nightmare than a fairy tale. What will happen when Zoe is forced to choose between serving The Queen and saving the prince of her dreams?
Cousins Zoe and Jess have landed an internship at Fairyland Kingdom, a theme park full of WOW, fairy tale characters, love and mystery. With Zoe struggling from her mother’s recent death and Jess’s financial problems, this is supposed to be summer of absolute bliss. Except it’s not. First, Jess gets cast as Little Red Riding Hood instead of her much desired Princess, and then Zoe gets stuck being the lady in waiting to the evil queen who runs the park! Now Zoe is waking up at the crack of dawn to serve her Majesty, taking care of a highly pampered dog, running off into the Forbidden Forest, and trying her best to do a million things at once.
It’s safe to say that Fairyland Kingdom is nothing at all like Zoe imagined, but it gets even weirder when some random prince saves her from sinking into oblivion in the middle of the Forbidden Forest! Now Zoe must struggle to maintain her duties, find the prince, and keep her job all at the same time!
You guys, I don’t understand my contemporary kick lately, but I thought that How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True was absolutely adorable! It had such cute characters, a witty and hilarious plot, and such a sweet romance! I can see how someone would find the book to be maybe a little too cheesy, but I had a very hard time setting this one down.
What I loved most about this book was the fun aspect to it. All of the interns had to play fairy tale roles, and it just brought this light and breezy quality to the book. There were a couple moments in the book were I raised my eyebrows at the slight cheese factor, but it didn’t really matter. The book was just too cute!
I LOVED Zoe’s character. I hate when I pick up a book and I can’t stand the main character, but that wasn’t the case at all with this one. I loved her from page one, and I was sad when I had to part with her at the end of the book. She was strong, hardheaded, brave, and loyal all in one tiny package. Likewise, I also really enjoyed most of the supporting characters, especially the evil queen. Everyone really got into their roles. It almost felt like I was in an episode of Once Upon a Time.
Did you see the most I added up there? Yeah….I didn’t really care for the guy that Zoe sort of ends up with. Actually, I didn’t really care for any of the guys in this book, which would have annoyed me more if I counted it more as a romance than a fun, fairytale, fantasy type of book. This isn’t anything that took away from the book, but I could have done without it.
Mystery and Suspense are all over this book even though it’s a light and fun read. I honestly thought I knew who the mystery prince was like two times, and then BOOM, I was wrong. I will say that my initial guess of the mystery prince was correct, so I give myself credit for that, but I loved not having everything just handed to me on a platter. I was forced to use my mind and really think about what was going on, and I love being wrong every now and then!
The ending of How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True was a slight disappointment for me, because it went in a different direction that I wanted it to. I would say that it starts deflating a little bit around the last 5 or so chapters, but it does pick up on the very last chapter. I wouldn’t let that deter you from reading the book, though, because it was well worth the read!
How Zoe Made Her Dreams Mostly Come True is a great Spring/Summer read that every contemporary fan needs to get their hands on. I sucked it down in a matter of days, and I’m still a little bit in mourning a week later. How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True hits bookstores today, so go get your copy!
Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 23rd, 2013
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
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