*Inhales deeply* If I see any more Cinderella retellings I will throw hands. Like seriously, what's with the market and it's obsession with Cinderella? Like the movie itself has 30 different versions of it without adding the books to it. Not that I am complaining but BRUH. LIMIT.
Cinderella has been dead for two hundred years. Sophie has been in love with Erin for the better half of three. In the kingdom of Lille, the girls of the kingdom are expected to follow Cinderella's footsteps and attend the annual ball once they're 18, where they will be presented to the men of the kingdom to be chosen. The girls who don't get chosen disappear forever. After almost being chosen by an abusive lord, Sophie manages to run away, in an attempt to overthrow the king and the evil practice of the annual ball.
QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 3.4/5, ENJOYABLE BUT REALLY ANTI-CLIMATIC.
WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE BOOK'S:
1. Writing Quality: I kind of like the writing quality in this book. It's mysterious and you can get that Cinderella vibe from it. It's all about the vibes you know. If a book fails the vibe check, that's a big downer in case of the book. So glad to see that in case of a retelling, this book actually does a good job for the vibes.
2. Image/ Illustration Quality: For a moment I was wondering why Lille was chosen as the kingdom where Cinderella had attended the ball. As far as I remember, there wasn't any mention of Lille in the movies, and even if there, I kind of missed it. But then I remembered, aaaaaaaah, Cinderella is French, so that kind of makes sense as to the location. It actually doesn't but my mind likes to play a shitty game of connect the dots so that kind of happened to make sense.
I do not make sense in this blog, maybe I should have that as a disclaimer.
DISCLAIMER: THIS BLOG SOMETIMES MAKES NO SENSE.
Otherwise, the illustration is quite well done. But I think that it might be because of the Cinderella movie that helped to imagine it much better. So I think the credit might go more to the movie than the book.
3. Character Development: There isn't much of character development in the books either. The characters are flat, unidimensional and very stereotypical. It was sort of easy to figure out their actions and all because there is literally nothing to add on to their characters, not a layer, not a past, or anything. Though Constance was a somewhat good attempt at what felt like character development.
4. Couldn't put it down- Ness: 7/10. It's an okay thing I guess. Guess I'm simply tired of Cinderella retellings so much, my mind automatically commands itself to not read anything remotely related to Cinderella. Like Lunar Chronicles was a good retelling of it and a lot other modern retellings just ruined the story for me. I even hate the original Disney movie now. The live action was sort of mildly tolerable considering Helena Carter played Fairy God Mother. Anyways, point is, I got distracted pretty quickly so it's not that high on the scale.
5. Plot Twists: I think the end was the only thing with a decent plot twist. Other than that, I do not see any hints of any unpredictability or anything else that could surprise me. It is actually very easy to surprise me so I was kind of disappointed when I saw that this book couldn't. I actually had a lot of expectations with the book. Sigh.
6. Plot: Well, the plot was certainly quite interesting. I did like that it was a gay-ish retelling of Cinderella but that's sort of it. Nothing much about it because I feel nothing about this book.
OVERALL, AN OKAY READ, not sure if I would recommend this book because I'm pretty sure better Cinderella retellings exist.
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