Ruth R. (rutheart) reviewed on 3/17/2006 + 5 more book reviews

The movie was actually better than the book for once (made for tv 2 years ago). I thought this was the worst retelling of Cinderella I had ever read. This is one case where the book shouldn't be told from a child's perspective. You're left not understanding most of what is happening, the way a child doesn't. I almost stopped reading it several times, as it was rather dull and the author didn't explain enough. I'm not a stupid person (1390 on my SAT, perfect on my GRE), so I can't imagine how the average reader would do with this book. I finally finished the book several weeks later, and the ending was not worth it. I tried a couple other books by the author, since I usually LOVE fairy tale retellings (Robin McKinley is sooo good!), but everything he writes feels like a dead fish to me. Just blah and kinda repulsive.

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