"Finding Cinderella" by Colleen Hoover

Can I just say how much I love this book? Not just this book, but the whole series?!

Finding Cinderella is a novella by Colleen Hoover and part of a series that contains two novels, Hopeless and Losing Hope. Finding Cinderella had been published as a free e-book, before its fanbase petitioned to have actual paperbacks printed - voluntarily paying for something they had previously legally been getting for free online. If that doesn't show you just how awesome this book is... I don't know what will.

Finding Cinderella is what started it all for me - the story that made me fall for Colleen's writing and her characters.
It's no all-beer-and-skittles rainbow-pooping-unicorns fairytale. And no one looses a shoe. But it is the closest thing to a believable modern-day real-life fairytale you could imagine. It's a hearfelt romance that will have you wanting to dive (back) into the character's lifes - which you are obviously more than welcome to do by reading Hopeless and/or Losing Hope.


Every day at school, Daniel spends fifth period in the maintenance closet because they forgot to assign him a class. Usually he just turns off the lights and takes a nap, relaxes before his next classes, but one day, everything changes. A girl - his Cinderella - literally falls onto him...

Daniel hates them all.
Cinderella hates them all.
And when Daniel and Cinderella start hating them all together, they pretend loving each other - or so they think.

Daniel and Cinderella spend fifth period together - in a dark maintenance closet. They cannot see each other, do not know each other's names - but their mutual hatred for everyone else leads them to spending the hour in love.
Under one simple, yet fatal condition: "they agree it will last only one hour, and it will be only make-believe."*
Once the hour is up, however, Cinderella rushes off and Daniel realizes that pretending might have just turned into the pretense. The time spent with her was short and anonymous, supposed to be a make-believe moment, yet she is all he will be able to think about.

He longs for her, misses her, looks for Cinderella in every girl he meets.

"I call her Cinderella because the first time I laid eyes on her, I thought she was so beautiful she couldn't be real. Girls like her were reserved for fairy tales and fantasies."
(Daniel Wesley, page 121 of Finding Cinderella)

About a year and a terrible relationship later - just when Daniel is about to give up on ever finding her - Daniel meets Six. Six, who happens to be his best friend's girlfriend's best friend. Six, who is beautiful, witty, and so his kind of girl it almost hurts. And just when he seems to like Six enough to forget about Cinderella, he realizes he doesn't really have to, because... Six is his Cinderella. Like... woah. That almost turned me into a rainbow-pooping unicorn the first time I read it. Almost. Because while Daniel is super thrilled about the girl he loves being the girl he loves (I know, right?!), Six doesn't seem quite as happy about the new-found truth, because she bears a secret that she fears will have the power to tear them apart...


Finding Cinderella is a beautiful, but unfortunately way too fast read. While you can easily read this as a stand-alone, I highly advise you to also read the rest of the series - Hopeless and/or Losing Hope, both of couse by the wonderful, one and only, Colleen Hoover. Should you choose for Finding Cinderella to be your first read of the Hopeless-series, I'd advise you to either read the ebook, or to skip the epilogue included in only the paperback version, as it hints on a big something happening in Hopeless/Losing Hope. I wouldn't read the epilogue until after having read either or both of the other books - but that's just me. Either way, the series is magic - enjoy! I know you will <3

To me, this is a 5/5 rating read!

P.S.: Dear Colleen, how about a salty balls novella/sequel? Pretty please in a pool of diet pepsi?
        (Once you've read Finding Cinderella, you'll wholeheartedly & undoubtedly agree with my request!)



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* quoted from the back of the book