Review: Excellent Love Story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2012
Bettie Sharp's Novella, Ember is one of the best fairy tale retellings I've read. It keeps all of the original elements of the original Cinderella story and gives it a tantalizing magic in exchange for the former springtime grace and lace. This is not a story for little girls, this is an adult story. It's still about true love, but more real love, hard to obtain love and harder to keep love once you get your hands on it.Prince Charming is charming to everyone who meets him, except Ember who guards herself from him. She is the one person he can't have and the one person he wants. Of course, she would rather cut out her soul. Ember's actions in guarding herself are extreme, and these actions immediately made me like her. She's a strong character, and not at all the Cinderella type I remember. She doesn't wait on things to happen to her like Fairy Godmothers, and glass slippers. No, this Cinder Girl has a plan of her own. I love it! But I don't want to discount Prince Charming's strength of character.He's more than just a handsome face - really the thing that's so beautiful about him isn't his charm at all, go figure that one. This leaves the step sisters and mother, Sharpe does a witch's curse on them, and those so called wicked wenches from before are nothing like you remember. I read this in two days, and plan to read everything Bettie Sharpe puts out, that's how much I like Ember. I highly recommend it and will have it on a must give list for Christmas.