The Sleeping Beauty Proposal is actually inspired by the author's experience of being dumped by a boyfrined - her secret jerk. Unlike Genie, Strohmeyer took the cathartic route and decided to write a book, creating Genie.
Review of The Sleeping Beauty Proposal
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hen 36-year-old Genie Michaels' boyfriend of 4 years, whom she supported as a struggling writer, hits the big time and makes the interview circuit, he winds up on Barbara Walters. With all of Genie's family and friends watching, Hugh proposes marriage on prime time television! Genie is estatic until she finds out that Hugh didn't mean her. He's having an affair and wants to marry his other lover. He soon takes off to England like the cad that he is and Genie is left holding the bag.
What's a girl to do? Her scene stealing best friend Patty gives her the worst advice as girlfriends, sometimes, do. She tells her that she has two choices, either suck it up or take charge of her life and do something about it. Genie, tired of always being Cinderella, decides to pretend that she's still engaged. Genie starts sporting a huge $24.95 cubic zirconia rock while the congratulations and the wedding presents start rolling in, and the parents are going all out with the wedding plans. Suddenly Genie is the center of attention, loving it and her life becomes complicated as she tries to make the impossible into truth.
Enters, possibly Mr. Right/Prince charming while Genie is still being deceitful and pretending to be engaged to the long gone Hugh...can this wallflower make her fairytale have a happy ending?
The Sleeping Beauty Proposal is actually inspired by the author's experience of being dumped by a boyfriend - her secret jerk. Unlike Genie, Sarah Strohmeyer took the cathartic route and decided to write a book, creating the character of Genie, who seems to have temporarily lost her mind in her attempts to take control of her life.
"Genie is my vision of how I might have reacted to my Secret Jerk if I’d had more guts," says Strohmeyer.
The Sleeping Beauty proposal is hilarious fun if you can get past the deceit, and the 'oh, my gosh, I can't believe she did that' about Genie letting things go too far and letting her parents plan a full-fledged wedding knowing full well that it's all a farce. It's the book about the things we would lovee to do if we had the guts. You know you wouldn't, but it's fun imagining it all the same.
Strohmeyer, author of best-sellers The Cinderella Pact and The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, doesn't present the "always a bridesmaid fairytale" that we've come to expect. Her heroine (at the age where most women are wondering if their Prince Charming will ever come) comes into her own and realizes that she's fine on her own, that she doesnt need a man to define her, complete her or to propel her forward in life, and just maybe that she's been thinking all wrong about relationships. This story is about love, friendship, and a flawed, very human and unlikely heroine finding and learning to love herself.
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