Review: I Tried... I Really Tried, But...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2014
I couldn't get into the story at all. Yes, I knew I was walking into a Cinderella knock-off. Something I was looking forward to, as a matter of fact. I normally enjoy "reworkings" of classic tales. But twenty-five pages into it, I still felt no connection with any of the characters. Even worse: I didn't like them. And - most deadly off all - I didn't care what was going to happen to them. Maybe I'm just the wrong age group (over 40). I had read another of Tara Lain's books, "Love You So Hard" which I found to be refreshingly engaging in a curiously naive sort of way - despite the truly terrible cover art; so I had great hopes for this, but they unfortunately fell by the wayside.