Great story - it was fun, funny, romantic, and entertaining. As usual, the dialog between Crusie's characters was fantastic. She always manages to make me laugh (out loud) while reading her books. Definitely one of my favourite authors these days! ( )

I have long been a fan of Jennie Crusie. In the Cinderella Deal, Daisy is deceptively flaky. What she really is, is smart, but she's lost trying to reinvent herself, trying to be true to herself and doing it in unorthodox fashion. So when her free spirit clashes with buttoned-up Linc, will she surrender her true self to match what he wants? (hint, you can't pin down a butterfly - or drown it). ( )

Enchanting lighthearted story of a staid professor who asks a ditzy artist to pretend to be his fiance in order for him to get the professorship he wants. She turns his life around. I thoroughly enjoyed this. The couple worked well together and the story was charming. Nice secondary characters. Well written with good pacing and plotting. ( )

I started this immediately, thinking this was far from the author’s best. Still, I wanted to love this book, though I dithered between liking it and loving it… until I finished. On the one hand, the story’s contrived, but stranger things have happened in life. And there’s something endearing about these opposites attract tale, where people aren’t all they seem despite their bluster. Think of it as an outrageous rom-com and sit back and enjoy getting the most from this story of a marriage of convenience that’s anything but. I eventually came thoroughly to enjoy this story of falling in love… after the marriage. No big surprises there; this is a romance, after all. What surprises the most are the characters of the protagonists and the way they help each other change in rewarding ways. ( )

Daisy and Linc are neighbors, their lives rarely intersect. Linc has applied for a job as a college professor in another state. He realizes very quickly that the powers-that-be expect a traditional family man to fill the position. Linc does the only thing he can think to do, he claims he's engaged.

When he gets called back about the job, he has to produce a fiancée. One thing he does know about Daisy is that she's good at telling stories. He makes her a deal, if she helps him he will pay her back rent.

Daisy needs a change in her life and ultimately excepts. When she sees the new town, she falls in love with it. It would be perfect for a fresh start, she liked the professors' wives, she finds an art studio that could show her work and a little vet's office that she could take her cats too. But she's just supposed to be pretending, she's not supposed to actually move.

Linc gets the job and plans to tell everyone that Daisy broke up with him when he returns in the fall. But he soon realizes, that is not an option.

At first these two barely like each other. Daisy is a kooky girl and that sometimes embarrasses Linc. And Daisy thinks Linc hates cats and is a womanizer (thankfully she's totally wrong about the cats).

Soon Daisy and Linc, two cats and a one eyed dog are all living together as a family. The line between pretend and reality starts getting blurry.

I liked the characters. If Linc had hated cats for real I wouldn't have liked him at all. I'm glad that was a misunderstanding :) and Daisy really was kooky but as kind hearted as could be. ( )