Cinder & Ella (2014) and Happily Ever After (Cinder & Ella #2) (2017) by Kelly Oram

I gave both of these books 5/5 stars. This is a PG-13 new adult romance and a sequel. This is a complete series. (Cinder & Ella needs to be read first.)

Cinder & Ella (2014)

Synopsis

It’s been almost a year since eighteen-year-old Ella Rodriguez was in a car accident that left her crippled, scarred, and without a mother. After a very difficult recovery, she’s been uprooted across the country and forced into the custody of a father that abandoned her when she was a young child. If Ella wants to escape her father’s home and her awful new stepfamily, she must convince her doctors that she’s capable, both physically and emotionally, of living on her own. The problem is, she’s not ready yet. The only way she can think of to start healing is by reconnecting with the one person left in the world who’s ever meant anything to her—her anonymous Internet best friend, Cinder.

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Hollywood sensation Brian Oliver has a reputation for being trouble. There’s major buzz around his performance in his upcoming film The Druid Prince, but his management team says he won’t make the transition from teen heartthrob to serious A-list actor unless he can prove he’s left his wild days behind and become a mature adult. In order to douse the flames on Brian’s bad-boy reputation, his management stages a fake engagement for him to his co-star Kaylee. Brian isn’t thrilled with the arrangement—or his fake fiancée—but decides he’ll suffer through it if it means he’ll get an Oscar nomination. Then a surprise email from an old Internet friend changes everything.

Review

Great Novel about Grief and Soulmates

As a book nerd, I was immediately grabbed by the summary: every-day girl is IM buddies with a movie star and doesn’t know it. They ‘met’ when he read her blog post about their favorite book, The Cinder Chronicles. Over the next 3 years, they become best friends even though they’ve never met. He’s texting with her when her life is destroyed by a horrible accident which kills her Mama and leaves her with 70% of her body burned and unable to walk. After being in a medically-induced coma for 3 weeks, she spends months in the hospital, enduring surgery after surgery and fighting to be able to walk again.

An Introduction

Hi. My name is Elisa and I love books. Books are the only thing I impulse buy, which is why I only go inside a bookstore once or twice a year. But, (un)fortunately, there's always Kindle Unlimited and daily book deals, plus digital loans from the library, so my TBR list is huge (and likely never ending).

Obviously, I love books.  My house is full of them, particularly hardbacks since I like the permanence and I have a habit of re-reading.  This bookcase (the bigger of the 2 I have in my bedroom) has been with me over 35 years. It's moved with me more than a few times. It used to have a shorter companion, but during ome of those moves, some of my friends accidentally let Junior roll down a hill during one of my moves, shattering it, so now this one is alone in its glory. Yes, most of the shelves are layered 2 thick, and these are just the ones that are on the top of my TBR. I also have a "library" with 4 similar bookcases packed full and a several other bookcases around the house. I honestly wouldn't have it any other way.