Review: Worth the $1.99
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
I read this after Cruel Beauty to help me understand the world in which these characters live.  Everyone in Arcadia is miserable, selfish, and unwilling to deal with life’s downers.  To only have the “ups” they are willing to bargain with the Gentle Lord but, end up no happier, and perhaps worse off than they were before the bargain.  There is hope, though.  I believe Maria is very wise when she says, “There are a lot of things I want. . . but I think I will keep what I have.”  (loc 1134)  Too bad more people in our world don’t think that way.  On a side note, the novella I downloaded has an excerpt of Cruel Beauty that literally takes up one third of the data.  But I do think this variation of Cinderella was worth my $2.00.