Review: Cute twist, stupid heroine
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2012
While the twists on the fairy tale are original and cute, and I liked the ending, I could not relate at all to the heroine because she just lets everyone else tell her what to do and, until the very end, waits helplessly for others rescue her as if she was about 10 years old.This woman is 21 years old, exceptionally beautiful, and is totally alone besides the step-mother/sisters. Really? Her father never introduced her to any young men for the past five or six years since she was old enough to marry?  She never went to London for a Season? Really? Corresponds with no one?  Really? Has never made one friend in her whole life? Has no family except one horrid cousin? Really? No godparents? No local clergy? No solicitor or man of business for her father's estate overseeing her inheritance or her dowry?  She also has no spirit and no brain. Really. If she had gone and told her vicar or estate manager or neighbor or anyone else about her troubles, she might have still been disbelieved and abused, but she didn't even attempt to stand up for herself or seek help in any way.Really.