GRR Reviews The Cinderella Arrangement by Vanessa Waltz

The Cinderella Arrangement was basically an 'arm candy turned real love' story, which is just a variation of "fake engagement / real love" story. The plot is trope as heck, and way too obvious, as if there wasn't much polish by the author. On the other hand, the plot does scale up the tension properly.

Jessica grew up under horrible foster care parents and she moved away as soon as she was able to. However, circumstances have not been good, to her, when she couldn't find a job. She very reluctantly set up a profile on a Sugardaddy website, hoping to be "sponsored", even though most propositions creeped her out. Then she came upon one that didn't... to find that her sponsor is Luke Pardini, the billionaire heir to the hotel fortune... but he is in his own personal hell. His mother died young, and his father was extremely cruel to him. He just needed arm candy, and Jessica fell for the wounded man, not the billionaire as they traveled to meet his family. But when the arrangement was exposed, and Luke was threatened with being written out of the will, Jessica left him, because she refused to be the reason he'd lose his fortune...

The story just didn't resonate much with me, as the plot twists are just tropes, with the "I'll save you even though you don't want to be saved" cliche "sacrifice" as the darkest hour. All in all, this barely rates "average". The characters have plenty of wounds, but not all wounds add dimension to the character.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: A woman needing a rich "sponsor" found a rich man who needed arm candy; can they actually fall for each other when their arrangement were discovered?

Tropes: different worlds, arm candy, scars, family secrets

Overall Rating:  3/5