A big thank you to NetGalley and BelleBooks/ImaJinn Books for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. This is a reissue. This was a fun book, full of surprises. Her fairy godmothers were wild. It made me laugh. This was a very quick read, and if you believe in instalove you will really like this book. 3.5 stars

I love my happily-ever-after romantic stories. I love easy, feel-good fast reads after reading a book that had a heavy theme to it. I was given a copy of Mad About Max back in 2016 to celebrate the release of the fourth book in the series, but for too many reasons, I never got around to it. As I am cleaning off my NetGalley shelves, I thought I would give this one a try.

While the story line itself seemed cute, the execution was a little off. A writer tells the story of 3 fairy godmothers who happen to come to life to make her romantic dreams come true, but instead they cause havoc before finding the HEA. There's Cinderella vibes throughout, as Grace also has a wicked stepmother and stepsister who are after her inheritance she's about to come into. Alas, there are no carriages turning into pumpkins (because THAT would be taking it a bit too far).

I found myself starting to skim the book about halfway through. When characters meet and fall in love with no pretext, I find myself unable to buy into the story. I have read some great books where characters fell into the love at first sight trope and I believed it. This? I didn't buy into it because I never really knew any of the characters. Grace and Max were too 1-dimensional for me to care about anything that happened. All the story lines were built up to fall flat, and it just couldn't hold my interest for long.