WARNING DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!

WARNING!If you see the following book in the bookstore, bypass it. Have Glass Slippers, Will Travel."

It's not worth the purchase price. I bought this book having been sucked in by it's cute title and without reading at least the first page and woe is me. Why am I do aganist this book you ask?
Well, let's start with the first page. This is a quote from the second paragraph. "What would Oprah do?" Katy asked aloud." Some of us believe in a higher authority than a day time talk show host. And to write a romance where a major secondary character is Oprah is an irony that I believe Lisa Cach has missed. Oprah has trashed romance novels in the past and been bombarded by angry romance readers and writers. When was the last time a romance was an Oprah book pick?

Okay that was only the first objection to this book.
Second, the heroine is clueless. She tries to be sophisticated but only ends up looking pathetic and naive. She jets off to London (she's unemployed BTW)in search of Prince Charming. (That's a major objection for me.) She wanted to be saved because she doesn't know what to do with her life. She books into a B&B in Mayfair (didn't know they allowed them in Mayfair.)because she liked the name. (Just stupid) And it was cheap. In Mayfair? Are you kidding me?
She mistakes a Bentley Rolls Royce for a London cab. She wasn't planning on seeing the sights and shopping in London. She was going to the night clubs and hot spots to pick up titled British guys. So of course she does her research and chooses as her fashion icon Queen Elizabeth II, on the belief that no one dresses more aristocratically than the Queen. Maybe that was logical in the 1600's, but times have changed. Katy must have missed the whole tenure of Diana, Princess of Wales. Needless to say her outfits didn't fit in. Despite that fact she manages to get invited to a major nightclub with part of the in crowd. So she goes shopping. To Harrod's and Fortnum and Masons and Selfridge's. She's shocked to find she can't afford any of the clothes sold there. A basic London guidebook would have helped you out there. So she gets help from a salesgirl. She does wonder why Melanie is helping her when she knows there's no commission in it. She should have walked away then and hit the sales, consignment shops and vintage clothing stores. But no. She agrees to Melanie's scheme of taking embarrassing photos at the nightclub. Melanie then sells all of Katy's photos to a tabloid. (Katy doesn't get a cut of the profits either)And then Katy has more invitations and needs more clothes and has to take more photos. Some at Ascot and some at a fancy houseparty. Then at the fancy houseparty (which somehow Melanie got invited to) the little shop girl turns around and betrays Katy to her new crowd. Mostly for the press. But being a romance Prince Charming does come to the rescue and in the end Katie marries her savior. Who turns out to be a Duke.
Let's hope Lisa Cach learns a little about plotting before she publishes her next book.