Not So Snow White by Donna Kauffman, Bantam, June 2006 (Glass Slipper Inc book)
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Can a down-on-her-luck princess really have it all?
A whisper away from thirty, gorgeous Tess Hamilton has been the tennis world's top titleholder and celebrity since she won her first championship at fifteen. Now the headline-making party girl is getting her first taste of mortality-thanks to new teenage phenom, Gabrielle Fontaine. But it's Gaby's cool, calm, and all-too-collected brother and manager, Max, who really has Tess seeing double. He's the first man she can't seem to seduce-or intimidate. It appears Tess is truly off her game, until a real-life, modern-day fairy godmother steps in....
Aurora Favreaux, a founder of Glass Slipper, Inc., and an old family friend, has a plan to get Tess back on her stilettos, and it includes an unlikely meeting between Tess, Max, and Gaby at Glass Slipper's new London headquarters-just in time for Wimbledon. It seems that Tess is going to hit the courts in a whole new way, to prove to the world-and herself-that a woman with the heart of a champion can ace life and love-even after the big 3-0....
I found this book hard to get into. I just couldn't fathom spending all the money Tess has made over the last 13 years (she was off with an injury that caused her to retire from pro tennis two years ago). But in a way I could because it was when she was between the ages of 15 and 30. I know personally at those ages I didn't think about the future. I also felt as though Tess was burying her head in the sand regarding be able to get endorsement deals easily now that she is retired and not in the spotlight on the tennis court. I also felt sometimes she acted spoiled. She wouldn't consider the coaching thing because she thought she was too good to coach (she called it mentoring, she was not a coach). I found Max very uptight. He believes the worst about a person. This book shows how much the gossip rags influence us. It's also sad to thing that the best way Tess to get media attention was to create a scandal. I thought all three main characters; Gaby, Max and Tess acted really immature. I also found they kept repeating the same arguments over and over.
Excellence Rating- Okay ~ Steaminess Rating- Heat Wave
Personal total- 120 ~ harl/sil- 92 ~ other- 28
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