Not That Kind of Ever After

Not that Kind of Ever After

By Luci Adams

Narrated by Josie Charles

Audiobook release date: March 14, 2023

Listening length: 10 hours, 37 minutes 

My review: 4 out of 5 stars

Read for my March 2023 Reading challenge, bonus prompt 2: reverse harem or female protagonist with options (this gal has MANY options in this book... just read my review) 

Fairytale meets feminism in Luci Adams's Not That Kind of Ever After, a frothy adventure of one woman’s journey to claim happily ever after in times of serial dating, swiping right, and the quest to find your soulmate.

Bella Marble’s life isn’t what she imagined. Instead of an author, she’s receptionist at a small press. Instead of happily married, she’s single, and her lovey-dovey parents are divorcing. And to top it off, her best friend of twenty-nine years, Ellie Mathews, is moving out and marrying the heinously boring Mark. (He’s not worthy of her. No one could be). Bella feels rudderless, only slightly soothed by time spent with Ellie’s (not hot) brother, (he’s not hot) Marty (okay, he’s hot. But he’s also the aggravating brother she never had—right)?

When Marty recommends Bella stop looking for “the one” and just have fun, Bella finds a new, empowered side of herself. But when she posts a fairy-tale retelling of a disastrous one night stand on a storytelling app, all of a sudden, Bella has become @B.Enchanted. And she’s gone viral.

Now, Bella’s in a fight with Ellie, her new roommates are so, deeply, weird, and the pressure is mounting to find new fairy tales to write about—but she’s got to live them first.

“As sidesplittingly hilarious as it is empowering and emotional, Not That Kind of Ever After is a sparkling debut.”—Helena Hunting, bestselling author

Although I received a copy of this audiobook in exchange for a review, all opionions remain my own.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to this audiobook!

First of all, this book is set in Britian, so you have a narrator with an accent which I loved. Then you have all those fun English words that are just a bit differently used in America, so be aware of that. In this story, Bella is looking for her prince charming, but all she seems to be finding in the streets of London are the frogs. So, she uses the frogs as inspiration for her writing. Lets just say that gets her noticed by a few people when she publishes her chapters online. 

Oh boy did this book have me laughing out loud. Between very hairy men and one who was painted blue, Bella really does find her way into the strangest situations. In the midst of the funny, her parents, whose love story she always looked at as an example, tell her they are divorcing, it basically turns her life on its head... the book really gets started. You will have to listen to this one to see the antics that Bella gets herself into. The ending was simple and beautiful though. Friendship is the best love of all.