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Colleen Hoover
Book ArchiveContemporaryNew AdultFire
A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love comes with conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.
When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. Moments like that with girls like her don’t happen outside of fairytales.
One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Daniel soon realizes the way he pretended to feel about Cinderella and the way he really feels about Six may not be so different after all. Especially when the two loves of his life end up being one in the same.
Unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it.
As a companion novella to Hopeless and Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella is a must-read. It can be read before the other two books (unless you really don’t want relationship spoilers) or after or even between the other two. And just like the other two books, it is stupendously well-written and epically heart-wrenching. I honestly didn’t expect to love this novella as much as I did, and I surely didn’t expect to cry over a story I thought I knew. Finding Cinderella is a hardcore must-read, not just because it’s free, but also because it’s amazingly good. [October 2013]