Fairy Tale Fail

Nah, the title of this entry isn't about my experience in boy-girl relationships (uhmmm, wait a minute, on a 2nd thought, it could be...). 

This is an e-book title which I saw and bought from amazon.com for my Kindle reading device. Ever since I got my Kindle last February 22, 2010, it has become my habit to visit amazon's site almost every night to randomly browse (and buy) for e-books. So it surprised me when I saw there is an e-book being sold by amazon by a Filipino writer, Mina V. Esguerra. This and the fact that it cost $0.99 only, made me buy this e-book. 

Suffice it  to say, this a chic lit stuff. After reading the first few pages, I had this feeling that I was reading one of those short novellas published locally (which I may add, I'm not really fond of for reasons I really can't pinpoint).  But what made me kept on reading this was the way it was written. It was simple and realistic. How it presented relationship concerns and issues were how I have seen it in my own relationships or in my friends' relationship with their significant others. There were actually some point in the story when I could actually feel for the fairy tale heroine, Ellie; her exhilaration of being in love, her shock at being dumped, her sadness and depression after the breakup, her waiting for that guy who she thought (and believed) was her Prince Charming to come back.  When all along, there is really someone right in front of her who was truly meant to be her Prince Charming. 

I liked the way Esguerra ended her story. Like all fairy tales,  it has a happy ending for Ellie, but it was done in a way that I didn't find it "cheesy"; I actually felt kilig about the ending. In short, I was able to relate so much with this book. 

Turning off my Kindle, I got to thinking "someday, and I mean, someday VERY VERY soon, I shall find me a Lucas..." 

Below is the book cover (as it is in printed form) and a summary of the book lifted from Amazon.com:

Of all the twenty-something women who are hopeless romantics, Ellie Manuel is more “hopeless” than “romantic.”

Even after her Prince Charming broke up with her, she just won’t give up … because fairy tale heroines don’t live “happily ever after” right away, silly, they’re tested first!

Determined to pass the test, she spends the next year restoring herself to the girl Prince Charming had fallen in love with in the first place.

Until she discovers that life without him might not be so bad after all: her career is taking off, her confidence is back, and the cute guy at work is no longer a stranger.

So when is it okay to quit on a fairy tale?