<p><b>Fairytale meets feminism in Luci Adams''s <i>Not That Kind of Ever After</i>, a frothy adventure of one woman¿s journey to claim happily ever after in times of serial dating, swiping right, and the quest to find your soulmate.</b><br><br>Bella Marble¿s life isn¿t what she imagined. Instead of an author, she¿s a receptionist at a small press. Instead of happily married, she¿s single, and her lovey-dovey parents are divorcing. And to top it off, her best friend of twenty-nine years, Ellie Mathews, is moving out and marrying the heinously boring <i>Mark</i>. (He¿s not worthy of her. No one could be). Bella feels rudderless, only slightly soothed by time spent with Ellie¿s (not hot) brother, (<i>he¿s not hot</i>) Marty (okay, he¿s hot. But he¿s also the aggravating brother she never had¿right)?<br><br>When Marty recommends Bella stop looking for ¿the one¿ and just have fun, Bella finds a new, empowered side of herself. But when she posts a fairy-tale retelling of a disastrous one nig