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Author: Mina V. Esguerra Title: Fairy Tale Fail Place Published: Manila, Philippines Publisher: Summit Books Year Published: 2012 No. of Pages: 142 Price: P175 Place Bought: National Book Store, Greenbelt 1 Have you ever dreamed of living happily-ever-after with the love of your life? What happens when your dreams fall apart? This is the premise of Mina V. Esguerra ’s contemporary romance novella Fairy Tale Fail .  Eleanor Andrea Manuel is a young professional working at a financial services firm in Makati City. Her boyfriend Don Padilla is her office mate. Ellie sees Don as dependable and friendly. He’s a “good guy,” the kind of guy her parents would love. She’s the heroine of her fairy tale love story, and he’s her Prince Charming. Then reality strikes unexpectedly. Don dumps Ellie. He says she lacks passion, ambition, money-sense, and is “a failure at relationships.” He misses the free-spirited Ellie he first met. She is devastated, but resilient. She sees her s...

Author: Mina V. Esguerra Title: Love Your Frenemies Place Published: Manila, Philippines Publisher: Mina V. Esguerra  Year Published: 2011 No. of Pages: 119 (on my Samsung Galaxy S3) Price: US$3.99 (Kindle Version) Place Bought: Amazon  The book cover of my Kindle version. Love Your Frenemies is a contemporary romance novella about Kimmy Domingo, a young woman who had everything going for her in life. She grew up comfortably under the loving care of her mother, and the money of her father, who had left the family when Kimmy was but a child. Father’s money paid for membership to the Country Club, where mother and daughter spent plenty of time with loved ones over the years. Career-wise Kimmy was the very best, and a promotion was definitely coming soon. It was also at work where she found the love of her life. But disaster struck when he unceremoniously dumped her a week before their wedding. Word spread through the grapevine, and the rumor-mill at wo...