The plot of this story is cute and will appeal to many people. HOWEVER, I'm taking off two complete stars for excessive use of foul language. The very people that this book would appeal to are going to put it down after one chapter because of the language....it detracts from the story and the author would do well to revise it out.

Magical fairy tales makes boogie dance with romantic comedy about so much lovable couple who has delicious, sizzling, smoking hot chemistry. Poor MCs have a big obstacle prevent their HEA! : the miserable heroine who thinks she is cursed because at the past, anytime she tried to make sex with her tempting hero , nature found its creative ways for an intervention! ( leeches, flying roofs, wild animal invasion, sinking boats etc.)Did you like my presentation? If your answer is already “yes”, please continue to read it!

Petunia, Jonquil, Bluebonnet: three godmothers remind you of epic witches of Hocus Pocus: Bette Midler, SJP (like her shoe brand), Kathy Najimy. But they’re not lovely witches, they are just magical fairy godmothers who are about to lose their powers. Their magical wands stop working properly because their town suffers from lack of love. If they won’t bring the happiness back, they may lose their entire powers. The best way to attract love into their place is meddling their two fairy children who have unfinished business.

Yes, we’re talking about Un- Lucky Fujiki ( okay, our heroine’s name Lucky but unlike her name she unintentionally attracts bad luck: everyone around her under the threat of any kind of catastrophe, danger or natural disaster. Only thing she has to do is hugging the person and transferring her bad luck vibes to him or her) and charming chocolate king Ransom Payne ( he literally owns a firm produces amazing chocolate! )!

When they were young and naive, they ended their relationship because something unmentionable happened during their hmmm let’s say “intercourse” or “attempt of intercourse” and when the word gets out, Ransom turns into a laughing stock of their small town. So they both told each other unacceptable and harsh things which broke them apart and both of them were too stubborn to say sorry.

Now godmothers kindly request them to act like fake fiancées which will help their matchmaking business bloom and bring the town to the happiness which will slowly evaporates.

Both Lucky and Ransom cannot dare to say no to their godmothers. Ransom still owes a part of his business success to them (yes, unlike Lucky, he knows their magical powers) and Lucky wants to face her fears by meeting with her ex-love she never achieved to forget.

Of course it’s obvious their love and undeniable chemistry will rekindle but could they defeat the bad luck of Lucky which is following them like a dark, black cloud?

I enjoyed the story, vivid, entertaining characters. I wish fairy godmothers interfered by their meddling skills to their love story but I still loved them.

And of course Gwen- the loyal best friend of Lucky and her kids stole my heart. I’m looking forward to read her sequel.

Overall: I’m rounding up 3.5 to 4 magical, happily ever after, a box full of chocolate, romcom, enjoyable stars!

It’s soft, sweet, swoon reading that I highly needed!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Books/ Zebra for sharing this lovely arc with me in exchange my honest review.

Erm well, this book was a slight disappointment. The plot and the premise was sound enough, but the fairy godmother and the history between Lucky and Ransom fell very flat. There was no background setting and development; the whole fake marriage story had no stakes it just fell flat and all I could think about was, GOD NO-NO (insert Micheal Scott).

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The plot was cute, the idea was a spin of fairy tales. But, I was so confused with all the names and characters. I never in all my life had to keep flipping BACK in a book to see if I am understanding who is who. I could not keep the names straight, Then, there was so many characters, I felt I needed a chart to understand who was who.

I wanted to love this book more than I did. I really thought I was going to.

I loved the premise of fairy tales retelling in modern times. I love fairy tales and happy stories. Which is why I picked this book, This book was more of a twisted fairy tale where three fairy godmothers wanted to boost the power of magic since it has decreased in the town of Ever After. They decided to create a wedding destination of their town to help fix the problem. Godchildren Lucky and Ransom were former college sweethearts that the fairy godmothers wanted to set up in a fake wedding to boost the town of Ever After. I liked Lucky and Ransom even though they had awful names. I overlooked that because I was interested in their love story. Lucky and Ransom had a sweet love story and I loved it.

My main issue besides the main characters names was the godmothers. It was really their story of rebuilding or rebranding their town but they were annoying to me. I know that I’m probably the only one that will think that. I wanted Lucky and Ransom to find their happiness without meddling godmothers but then again this was a book full of meddling people in it. Again I had to overlook that to read how the story would unfold for me.

I was at times confused of the many characters and their roles in the town of Ever After. I felt that the writer would start a story line of a character but never finished it. I’m assuming it’s for the next book? I loved the best friends and how loyal they were to the main couple. I especially loved Gwen’s children. I think the next book would be about the best friends finally finding happiness which I’m looking forward to.
Overall, I liked this book, I just needed more of Lucky and Ransom for this to be a perfect book,

I received this ARC from the publisher and Netgalley for my honest review. All opinions are my own.