Thursday, February 28, 2013

I loved reading "The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back" by Sariah Wilson ~ blog tour/giveaway


The Ugly Stepsister Strikes BackThe Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Source: Received to Review for this blog tour
Genre: YA Romance

Book Description:  Everyone knows how all those fairy tales go. The princess gets beautiful, nabs her prince, falls instantly in love, lives happily ever after and leaves her evil stepsisters in the dust.

But what happens when you’re the ugly stepsister and your obnoxiously perfect—read pretty, smart, and, worst of all, sickeningly nice—stepsister is dating the charming, tall, devastatingly handsome guy you’ve had a thing for since you were nine years old?

Quirky, artistic and snarky Mattie Lowe does not lead a charmed life. Her mother is constantly belittling her on Skype. Mercedes, the school mean girl, has made it her personal mission to torment Mattie. But worst of all? Her stepsister Ella is the most beautiful, popular girl in school and is dating Mattie’s secret longtime crush, Jake Kingston.

Tired of being left out and done with waiting for her own stupid fairy godmother to show up, Mattie decides to change her life. She’ll start by running for senior class president against wildly popular Jake.

Ella can keep her Prince Annoying. Mattie’s going to rule the school.

And no one, not even a cute and suddenly flirty Jake, is going to stop her.



My thoughts:  Mattie compares her life to a fairy tale. She is the ugly step sister. She has a list of grievances against Ella, her step sister. Ella is smart, thrifty, beautiful, perky, kind...... in short the near perfect person. Ella's boyfriend is the crush that Mattie has had since elementary school.

This book is written from Mattie's perspective. Mattie is such an amazing character. She has elements in her personality that everyone could relate to. She is hiding. Hiding from herself, her peers, her sister, her parents, the whole world really.

Through circumstances not entirely of her own making ,she learns that she has self worth, that just maybe she has her fairy tale wrong. Maybe the ugly stepsister is worthy of the prince. Maybe the ugly stepsister is worthy of respect and can make a place for herself.

The secondary characters are wonderful. Ella is really as good as she seems. Jake is swoon worthy. Her best friend is a great guy. The rival and bully, Mercedes, is very good at being mean and causing drama.  Her mom is not a good example of motherhood but plays a pivotal role in her self esteem issues.

This book is perfect for girls wanting to read a romance book. It's clean, fun, and full of situations that could be semi realistic.


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“Sariah Wilson's new book, The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back, is hilarious…What follows is a story of fun and romance with some good non-preachy life lessons thrown in.  The voice in the main character, Mattie, makes the whole thing.  I thought it was definitely a book I'd recommend to anyone with teenagers or who just want to read a good teen romance.”
~Julie Coulter Bellon, author of All Fall Down and All’s Fair

“Sariah [Wilson] has written one of the funniest stories I've read in such a long, long time. I literally couldn't put it down. Yes, my poor Kindle's battery died and I was attached to a short power cord, contorted in a very uncomfortable position while I read to the end…. Sariah Wilson captured the back-biting, insecure, hormone-driven, clique-riddled high school atmosphere so perfectly you'd think she never grew up. I dare you not to laugh as you read this witty and oh, so, romantic story.”
~Debra Erfert of Windows into Writing


“This was such an entertaining story! I shouldn't have started reading it so late in the evening, because I didn't want to put it down to go to sleep…This is a book I can see myself reading several times. It's a fast, clean read with great characters, and I highly recommend it.”
~Andrea of Literary Time Out

The book is wonderful.  It’s quirky and fun.  The story makes you laugh and you fall in love with the characters right from the beginning…This is a well-written book.  It is one that will make you smile and sigh as you remember your first love.  And it has a moral…be yourself, believe in yourself and maybe, just maybe, your fairytale will come true.  Pick up this book.”
~Ana of The Book Hookup



Author Sariah Wilson

Sariah Wilson has never jumped out of an airplane, never climbed Mt. Everest, and is not a former CIA operative. She has, however, been madly, passionately in love with her soulmate and is a fervent believer in happily ever afters—which is why she writes romance. The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back is her fourth happily ever after novel. She grew up in southern California, graduated from Brigham Young University (go Cougars!) with a semi-useless degree in history, and is the oldest of nine (yes, nine) children. She currently lives with the aforementioned soulmate and their four children in Utah, along with three tiger barb fish, a cat named Tiger, and a recently departed hamster that is buried in the backyard (and has nothing at all to do with tigers).




Tour Giveaway
$25 Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash
Ends 3/10/13

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1 comment:

  1. There is no longer a like button on Amazon =( someone made mention of this on another blog contest

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