Dara Girard

** spoiler alert ** It's a turnabout in "The Glass Slipper Project" by Dara Girard. Four sisters who lived in a mansion find themselves penniless. Alex, the boy whose mother worked for this family returns rich. He decides to buy back the big house. At their wits end, the sisters make a plan. One will marry Alex. Then, the other three sisters can move back into the house. All four will live happily together with fewer worries and the family will have become bigger.

However, like all plans made on the fly everything begins to fall apart. This is when the author brings in lots of unexpected circumstances. "The Glass Slipper Project" fills with surprise after surprise. One surprise is who will marry whom. In other words who will win Alex's heart and his friend, Tony's heart. I liked Isabella the best of all. She thinks of herself as invisible. As the story goes on, Isabella seems to lose more than the other sisters. All of her dreams fall apart.

I also liked the way characters changed their attitudes throughout the story. Mrs. Lyons, the lady who Isabella works for changes suddenly. Her change of mind hurts Isabella. Alex whom I loved had a real attack of anger. After he shows his temper, I might have begun to take everything he said too seriously.

I did feel that at times the sisters seemed too sweet. If only they had shown as much emotion as Alex and the rich lady or as much feline emotion as Nicodemus, the cat. However, as the situation worsens for Isabella the sisters begin to show their true hearts. It's a fun, sad, interesting romance… (mehr)