Review: Not Cinderella, But Enjoyable
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2013
The book pretends to a modern day retelling of Cinderella, as it seems the other books in this series will also be alluding to some fairy tale, but the resemblance is a forced one. There are references to a pair of red shoes, we have a wicked step mother and two not-so-wicked step sisters, and a groom known as Prince Charming, but that's all rather stuck on a story that bears no other likeness to the classic story line. I wonder at the docile acceptance of the loss of all she's worked for her entire life, when such seems inevitable at the hands of her husband, but he seems far more upset by it than she does, even though she's depicted as being a workaholic in devotion to that seemingly lost cause. It was a bit awkward in places, but overall it was a nice book delivering a story well told.