REVIEWED BY
Melinda Lazar
At the Stroke of Midnight by Tara SivecMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
At the Stroke of Midnight (The Naughty Princess Club #1) by Tara Sivec
4-4.5*
What a wonderful and hilarious start to a brand new series! At the Stroke of Midnight introduces us to three very different women: Cynthia (aka Cin aka Cinderella), Ariel (fairly self-explanatory), and Isabelle (aka Belle) who come together to right the (financial) issues in their lives and start a business together. After attending what they thought was a children’s birthday party in their best fairytale attire and being mistaken for strippers, the business they decide to start is for fairytale strippers - who knew there’d be such a niche?! Apparently, Sivec knew! They go to Charming's strip club to learn the tricks of the trade and that’s where Cynthia has her THIRD encounter with PJ: the first when she fainted and he caught her in his arms and the second being when she turned up for his birthday!
I loved all the characters in this book so much. I loved PJ Charming: he really lived up to his name. A sexy, sweet, nice guy - how many men do you know who’d open up a strip-club solely for single mothers and happily accommodates their and their children’s needs? Cin needed a good shaking and someone to assist with her pole-in-her-butt syndrome. Who better to assist than the absolutely crass Ariel and the timid yet full of interesting facts, Belle? No one. They, along with PJ, helped Cin to see herself as more than just the PTA mom and chair of the homeowners association. They collectively helped her get in touch with sexy side and to stop hiding behind her bland ensembles. They were such an incredibly unlikely combination group of women to ever have formed a friendship but they complemented each other and showed support in some interesting ways!
It’s been a long, long while since I’ve read Sivec and her brand of humor can be a hit or miss for me. I’m so thankful that At the Stroke of Midnight was a hit! I laughed throughout and while I can’t deny enjoying the romantic aspects of it, what I enjoyed the most was the celebration of friendship and female solidarity. My only real gripe if you can call it that is, considering that Cin is a single mother, I would have liked a bit more of her daughter throughout the story rather than the little that was interspersed. The set-ups for the following books have me so very excited to read those and I’ll be refreshing netgalley repeatedly until they pop-up!
*arc received from netgalley in exchange for honest review.
**Reviewed by Melinda for Joandisalovebooks Blog.
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