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Ella Kent, the Elephant
is tired of being fat. She has had it
with being the brunt of everyone’s jokes because she is overweight. So
in honor
of her thirtieth birthday, she gets a “magic” beauty potion from a
mysterious
gypsy woman at a traveling carnival. In the heat of the moment, after a
depressing evening with her only friend, she chugs the magic potion and
hopes
for the best. The best turns out to be a new, beautiful and slim, Ella.
Now
that she is slim, she can do anything that she wants, and have anyone
that she
wants. That anyone happens to be Ian Clayton, a sexy Irish restaurant
owner
that haunts her dreams. She knows that she can have her way with him
and live
out her fantasies for thirty days like the potion says. But when her
thirty
days are over, what will become of the new Ella and her new love?
ELEGANT is a tender and
touching tale about a girl who wants
to be beautiful and finally gets her chance. However, when her chance
at
happiness is short-lived, she must decide whether she should let her
inner
beauty win Ian’s heart or if their feelings for each other are a
product of
outer beauty and lust. Ella is the woman inside all of us and Ian is
the
perfect object of her affection, who turns out to be not so perfect.
Can Ella
the Elephant turn out to be Ella the ELEGANT?
Reviewed by Ansley
Velarde for The
Road to Romance
June 22, 2004
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In her dreams, Ella Kent had a body made to make men drool. In reality, she was two-hundred and seventy-five pounds of woman that men ignored. For her thirtieth birthday, she bought a magic potion from a gypsy at the carnival in town. It was a potion that was supposed to make any wish come true for thirty days. Yeah, right. Wondering what she had to lose, Ella downed the potion with the wish that for the next thirty days someone would look at her as if she were someone special, and not Ella Kent the Elephant. As she made the wish, she wished that the someone would be the ruggedly handsome man she’d met--well, he’d knocked her over--at dinner that night.
She hadn’t expected the potion to work but when she woke the next morning to thin and gorgeous in the mirror she couldn’t deny what was starring back at her. When Ian Clayton, the ruggedly handsome someone she’d wished about, tells her that he wants her, she jumps at the chance to live out her dream, if only for the next thirty days. But what happens when those days are up and she turns back into a pumpkin? What she finds out is that things are not always what they seem, and love prevails through it all.
ELEGANT is a must read for any woman who’s ever had identity issues. That would be all of us, right? Isabella Jordan has created two wonderful characters that are the epitomes of the reason woman devour romance novels. Ella’s torment at not loving the outside, but being a wonderful person inside, is something we all can identify with. Ian’s love and sensitivity are all something we wish for in a man. Have a wish or a dream you’d like to be a reality? Read ELEGANT for inspiration, then get to work on it!
Reviewed by Tina Burns
for The Road to Romance
July 13, 2004
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