2.5 stars
A contemporary fairytale!
I thought this book had its charming moments! I liked the characters and liked the magical aspect for the most part. It felt different than a lot of romance novels I’ve read lately.

Even with the premise being based on fairy godmothers, there I still a lot of steamy scenes.... but that being said it felt a bit juvenile for being a romance between adults. Especially “the Incident” they kept referring to... it honestly made me giggle that they had made such a huge deal about that.
I don’t know why so many breakups in romance novels have to be because of silly miscommunications. But, I also felt like they got over their anger towards each other and moved onto other things (mainly trying to have sex) pretty quickly.
Basically, this requires you to suspend your disbelief and just enjoy the ride.
It was cute and sweet albeit a little too fluffy.

*special thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

I love magical realism, so this book immediately appealed to me. It’s almost as easy to call this romance though.

Lucky has always had bad luck. Her luck is so bad that she actually thinks she might be cursed.

Ransom is doing just fine, he’s incredibly wealthy but still misses his old girlfriend Lucky.
Lucky misses him too but they would never have admitted it on their own. Something happened in their past that turned into a humiliating experience for Ransom and stuck with him ever since. I’m not going to say what, I’ll just say that they were never able to consummate their relationship.

They actually feel like they might be cursed when they’re together. If they try to be together, terrible things happen.

But their fairy godmothers need their help and they’d do anything for them. They agree to a fake wedding to bring people into their town, Ever After.

As Lucky and Ransom start to fall for each other, it starts to take a toll on Ransom’s career and Luckey’s best friend Gwen.
Lucky has to figure out how to save herself and everyone else.

There were some beautiful messages in this book. I thought Ransom’s nickname was so silly it was distracting. But I liked all of the characters, the settings, the animals, the magic, basically everything else.

I got to read an early ebook edition from NetGalley. Thanks!

First, I would like to say a big thank you to Netgalley and Kensington Books for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Lucky has never been lucky...rather she seems to be a harbinger for bad luck. Ransom has founded a successful chocolate company, which has grown and prospered. The only thing Lucky and Ransom have in common are their godmothers - fairy godmothers, that is.

Exes with a past behind them, Lucky and Ransom are reunited for their fairy godmothers' grand scheme to save their little town of Ever After. Lucky and Ransom will get "married" to attract publicity and put Ever After on the wedding map.

With Lucky's track record and Ransom's past, can these two pull it together to get to the alter and save Ever After?

Lighthearted humor!!

Needed this to lighten hearts and minds.

FUN STORY
I am looking forward to next book in the series!

I found the plot a little hard to follow. I'm not sure if this is because the plot was a little convoluted or if I wasn't engaged in the story enough to care to pay attention. I enjoyed the beginning of the book, but the rest was a bit of a slog. I know the author is setting herself up for a series, but you don't want to lose the focus of the story either. Also, the female protagonist saved the day by admitting something was a ruse, but that thing ended up happening any way which would make her and the male protagonist look like liars. This is never addressed, but it kind of bothered me.

Very cute book.
It had a Once Upon A Time (the Tv show) vibe to it with a dose of misfortune á la Lucky, one of 2 main characters of the story.
It transports you to Ever After where all these fairy tale characters live with their own stories and you go along planning a fake wedding in 2 weeks, nothing bad can happen with 3 fairy Godmothers kicking around, right?
Ha!

Character growth here was pretty big on Lucky's part, but I found that she was the only one really who had it.
The flow of the plot was wonderful. Kept you pulled in, had you right there next to them wondering what is next.

So happy that there is a continuation coming cause I will definitely be reading that too.

This was a cute, fun, at times naughty, romance story. I enjoyed the urban fantasy development. The story follows a man and a woman who had a fraught romance in their college days. They also happen to share actual fairy godmothers who live in a slice of Ever After. They come together again due to their godmothers' meddling and the story then follows some predictable ups and downs between the two romantic leads. The three fairy godmothers further meddle in the lives of the main characters and the supporting cast included a lot of other fairy tale characters by other names such as Red Riding Hood, the 7 dwarves, Sleeping Beauty, etc.

I enjoyed the interweaving of existing fairy tales with the story that DeWylde developed. It was a cute story and I read it very quickly. If you read Seanan McGuire's Indexing series or Mercedes Lackey's Five Hundred Kingdom series and enjoyed their new takes on fairy tales, I think you will enjoy this story as well. This is a romance novel, and there are some R-rated passages in the story.

This book is full of magic. It brings together elements of all the classic fairy tales in Ever After, Missouri. The Fairy Godmothers scheme to bring Lucky Fujiki (who has always been Un-Lucky) together with her former romance, Ransom Payne. Their previous break-up was over an awful incident, and it is not clear how they can ever move forward toward a happily ever after.

This book was so fun and funny, and I laughed out loud. I couldn't put the book down and found myself skipping meals and chores.

Ransom is an amazing man who believes in love and family and magic and just being a good guy. Plus he owns a fair-trade chocolate company. I now must go buy all the chocolate bars.

The journeys that Lucky and Ransom have to go through are fantastic. They grow and learn a lot of life lessons.

I found myself wondering throughout whether this would be a stand-alone book or a series. I hoped for a series because I wanted more Ever After and dairy godmothers. And the second has already been announced.

If you are looking for a light, magical, fun read (with a bit of adult content), this is a great book for you.

Fairy Godmothers, Inc. is a magically sweet romance! Lucky and Ransom return to the magical town of Ever After, Missouri to help their fairy godmothers stage a fake wedding on Valentine's Day to save the town. This was a quick, easy, light read! Perfect for reading in the middle of a long dark winter or for a Valentine's Day reading challenge.

I found the plot boring and the writing too annoying to follow. Did not get invested and not something I would recommend. The day after I read it, I forgot about the characters and the story completely. It really was too overtop which is a shame because the premise from the summary seemed interesting.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Lucky is chronically, comically unlucky. Ransom, the boy she loves, leads a charmed life full of success – with a secret boost from their trio of shared fairy godmothers. But every time he tries to get close to her, her bad luck has catastrophic consequences for him. When their beloved godmothers ask them both for help, one thing is clear: a scheme to ensure Lucky and Ransom live happily ever after is officially afoot.

Verdict: bibbidy-boppity-boo with a contemporary twist, set in the magical world of Ever After, sugarspun storytelling, intentionally cartoonish vibe

More fairytale-magical than paranormal, this novel is the sweet first entry kicking off a new series in the land of Ever After. The cast of characters is loaded with all your other favorite childhood staples: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and the Evil Queen, etc.

Lucky, our heroine, has the kind of wildly unrealistic misfortune where simply hugging a nemesis in a cafe will immediately rain misfortune and identity theft upon said enemy. The kind of misfortune where even kissing Ransom pelts him with grapefruit-sized cherries from a previously barren tree. Not just papercut-type bad luck, but full plague-of-locusts bad luck.

Long kept apart by the bad luck she tries to avoid infecting loved ones with, Lucky and Ransom have still always shared a connection. Likewise, they’ve also always shared the same darling godmothers – who Ransom knows are fairies, while Lucky is still in the dark.

As they navigate their way to a happily-ever-after, guided by those meddling old biddies and their magical friends, the reader discovers things – e.g. magic – more or less when Lucky does. Since many other things need to be established about the characters and their history and setting first, the pacing of this exposition is drawn out. In and of itself, isn’t necessarily a shortcoming.

However, some aspects of the irregularly-paced worldbuilding still left questions wide open at the end of the novel: for instance, is it normal to have three fairies looking after you instead of one, and how come Lucky and Ransom just happened to have the same ones? How come they have three, while humans like Lucky’s best friend have none? If these three are the only fairies in the magical town of Ever After, where do the others live – are there many secret magical settlements around the world, or is this highly unusual?

TLDR: If you have an ache in your sweet tooth, this fluffy, funny little marshmallow of a modern fairytale should squarely hit those once-upon-a-time cravings.

An enchanting story of love and witchcraft set in a small town is sure to win many hearts. The storyline flowed seamlessly and completely won me over!

This book is so funny and charming. This is the perfect type of paranormal for me. I love Saranna DeWylde's world building, which is wacky and off the wall while being so grounded and making a lot of sense in its own weird way.

I prefer these fairy godmothers to the one in Cinderella, they have actual nurturing, fussy, godparent relationships with their charges, as opposed to popping in and out when they need an outfit.

Ever After is a cool city, if it was real I think they would be very successful in making it a tourist destination! I can't wait to read more books set there.

The one part I don't get is why The Boy Who Missed is such a big deal that it haunts his professional life.

Overall, great book. It will appeal to a wide variety of readers and make everyone giggle and smile.

Fairy Godmothers, Inc. is a lovely romance story, but it's more than that. Through the story, we see the two main characters grow and learn about themselves and their fears.
Lucky is a young artist, but, wherever she goes, something bad seems to happen. Ramson is a successful young businessman. Together, they will learn to love each other and to respect each other.
The three godmothers are adorable, sassy and meddling. Who wouldn't want a godmother like them?
I'll be looking forwards to reading more books in this series.

Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC, I really enjoyed it.

Fairy Godmothers, Inc was very, very cute. If you are looking for a cutesy, light, fairytale read- I definitely recommend! I enjoyed the setting, the fairytale aspects, seeing all of the beloved fairytale characters, and the premise. I did however feel like this book became a bit convoluted and wish the book had been a bit more streamlined. If the story and characters had been more focused, this could have been a favorite read of the holiday season.

I will definitely continue with the series- I hope we get a little bit more magic and less tangents in the next book but overall, it is so fun, so sweet, and very funny- surprisingly funny!

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Kensington Books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I thought this was going to be be another cheesy YA book but hey I could use a feel good read right about now, especially right now, so why not? I’m so glad I did. Saranna DeWylde had me laughing out loud and waking up early so I could finish it. I highly recommend Fairy Godmothers, Inc.!

A light hearted romance and an easy read. I expected elements of fantasy fairy tale and romantic comedy to come together seamlessly but the book fell a little short for me. Predictable plot elements with flat world building around the fairytale aspect of the story. Not a terrible read but it didn't knock my socks off. If you are a fan of easy, cozy rom coms this quick read will be a winner for you. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to review this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Plot: As much as I enjoyed the book, there were too many plots going on: the fairy tale city and fairy godmothers, the unlucky woman and the past lovers trope. I would have preferred the fairytale part to be more explored, it felt very superficial and, therefore, out of place. I couldn't get used to the fact that I was reading an adult romance set in a fairytale city with fairy godmothers.I didn't feel like I coudn't stop reading this book.
Writing: The writing was really good - the author knew how to finish chapters and create a great flow. Definitely the plot could have been better with this kind of writing.
Characters: At first I was extremely confused with the characters. All of them were introduced in the first 6-8% of the book, very briefly and we had to figure out who was who. The godmothers should have had way more space in the story, they felt very much like supporting characters. The main couple was well developed and had great chemistry.
Verdict: I took longer than expected to finish the book because I was not invested in it. It's a decent read, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.

This book was lighthearted fun in a fairy tale setting. Three sweet fairy godmothers, who live in Ever After, Missouri, want to increase their magic (which is only done with love) by bringing people to Ever After for their weddings. To promote the town as a wedding venue, they talk two of their godchildren, Lucky and Ransom, into staging a fake wedding for publicity. The two were a couple in college, but things went bad between them and they haven't been together since.

Lucky and Ransom were good characters for this rom-com of a story. Together they were a great couple, but there were some major issues happening that couldn't be explained. Magic was everywhere, and there was a lot of humor. All in all a fun book.

Thanks to Kensington Books through Netgalley for an advance copy.

Thank you to NetGalley for the eArc of this book.

This had so much promise; I love the town with tons of our favorite fairy tale characters (godmothers, Briar Rose, Red Riding Hood & Grannie, and more). The love interests in this story are both godchildren of three fairy godmothers who need to bring love to their town to save it. This is a cute romcom with deeper moments as both the hero and heroine have to grapple with their inner values at times. I felt that there were a few too many side characters and tangents to keep the story flowing correctly.

I will continue on with the series though as I feel that it is cute and different.

Nice, easy read.