How terrible it would be if EJ’s book fell into this group. I often find myself disappointed, and sometimes irritated, by what I think of as false Cinderellas. Ever since I researched Cinderella for a grad school paper on Shakespeare’s Cordelia ( King Lear), I’ve been bothered by the tendency in American popular culture to apply the term “Cinderella tale” to any story, song, film, real-life relationship, etc. A favorite romance trope in a novel by one of my favorite romance authors-what could be more designed to delight this reader’s heart? Except-I had this niggling concern. I have been looking forward to reading A Kiss at Midnight ever since I first read that Eloisa James was writing a Cinderella tale. Teresa Medeiros, Julia Quinn, Anne Gracie, Elizabeth Hoyt, Judith Ivory, Robin McKinley, Mercedes Lackey-I have fairy tale romances by all of them among my keepers. I’m a fan of romances with fairy tale themes.
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