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What Matters Most

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Can a real-life prince really see the worth of a real-life Cinderella?

Nathan, 37, is a handsome senator vith all the doors open to rise even higher. Leta, 26, is bright but uneducated girl - for a good reason, as her beloved mother has dementia. So Leta, a sole breadwinner, had to let her dreams go and needs to work multiple jobs to let her mother stay in the nice facility.
Their ways cross and the sparks flow. But can the both of them make a decision that can - in all the reality - halt their possibilities in life?

Ugh. I hate to say I did not love this book as much as the previous ones. Two reasons - the political setup was very black-and-white and too much simplified to feel realistic. I do believe in the true leaders, even in politics. But they are good people and leaders because they have been tested on their characters and they passed the tests well. Nathan here does not feel to me as this kind of leader.
The second reason - both Leta and Nathan have no character trajectory. They are portrayed as good people constantly, no brokenness, no faults to work on. And I came to love exactly that brokenness and the rise from it in Ms Coates Gilbert´s works.

But I love the idea of modern prince and Cinderella - what can cross the borderlines of money, success and education? Can it be even crossed? Good question to discuss!
And the information about dementia is deeply human. This research needs to be supported.

All, in all, while I expected more, I still gained quite a lot here.

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