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ISBN: 1599559064 (ISBN13: 9781599559063)
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Title:Cinder and Ella
Author:Melissa Lemon
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 273 pages
Published:November 1st 2011 by Bonneville Books (first published October 27th 2011)
Categories:Fantasy. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Romance. Retellings

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This book was... weird. I still can't make up my mind whether it's meant to be an MG-level read, or YA. The writing style is all mixed up, part traditional bardic narration and part simplified children's narrative. For example:

The end result was havoc in the place of happiness. Contention was now a constant guest in the house and the occasional, small quarrels between the sisters turned to fits of rage. They would often say nasty things to each other, hurt each other, or simply not speak to one another for weeks at a time. One day, one of the daughters was about to cut a cake for somebody's birthday. The older sister was relentlessly throwing a tantrum because she wanted to cut the cake. So the third daughter grabbed a handful of the cake and smeared it into the hair of her older sister. The eldest daughter slapped her very hard across the face and the third daughter ran to her room, her cheek stinging and red. After this happened, the mother announced that birthdays would no longer be celebrated in the house. *

The idea behind the novel is interesting, but the execution is severely lacking. Cinder and Ella, along with their parents and two sisters live happily in the village of Willow Top. Until the evil Prince comes to visit them one night and sows poisonous seeds in the father's mind. Soon their father becomes discontented and eventually leaves the house. Their mother, devastated by her husband's abandonment, retreats to her spinning wheel, leaving her daughters to fend for themselves. The eldest and youngest children turn into indulgent twats, and the burden of caring for them falls onto the middle siblings Conder and Ella.

But when Cinder gets a job at the palace as a maid, she becomes involved in magical intrigue involving the evil prince, and also manages to pull her sister Ella into it. Along the way, the two sisters find love, adventure and betrayal.

I've written three full-length reviews today, and I'm running out of steam, so I'm going to finish this up quickly.

The characterizations in this book are flat, to say the least. I never really got an idea of who the main characters were. The author told more than she showed. Some things were just outright ludicrous. For example, the prince wreaks havoc across the kingdom while the king sits in his room and watches. He never interferes until things get dire, and the prince is finally banished from the kingdom for hurting Cinder and Ella, but while the prince is stealing souls and enslaving his subjects, the king just sits back benignly and watches. Why is he king, again?

The story is allegorical, I get that (and if I didn't there is a list of 'questions to think about' at the end that point me in that direction!) but the allegory is handled clumsily. The fact that this story has underlying messages doesn't mean you can skimp out on the actual storytelling and characterization.

This book wasn't boring, exactly, but it wasn't anything to write home about either. Meh describes it best. It is nowhere near sophisticated enough for a YA read, and not interesting enough to appeal to MG readers. I would suggest that anyone looking for a fanciful fairy tale of this sort try Gail Carson Levine. Her books are charming and well-written and have great characters!

* Quotes are from an ARC and will be verified against a published copy.

An ARC was provided to me for review purposes by the publishers via Net Galley.

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This review was completed by Amanda Harbin, staff reviewer with the YA Fantasy Guide.I was attracted to this book because it was the first time that I had ever heard of someone turning Cinderella and her fairy tale into a fairy tale about two sisters. It is a truly a unique concept and I thought that overall it was well executed. The story of the sisters Cinder & Ella didn't just take the road less traveled, it carved out its own path. There were a few traditional Cinderellian (I just

We all know Cinderellas story. A fairy godmother, Two evil step sisters and a step mother who ruined our heroines life. And glass shoes that saved her from that evil family and of course a charming Prince who would come to save the day and they live happily ever after. Well..FORGET THAT. Cinder and Ella is not a fairy tale story we all know. Cinder and Ella are sisters. There was no prince( well not really) , no fairy godmother and no step sisters and mother and no glass shoes. Cinder and Ella

(This review is for the ARC, courtesy of NetGalley)Cinder and Ella, by Melissa Lemon, is nominally a revision of the Cinderella fairy tale. In it, the sisters Cinder and Ella are wrenched from their previously happy home after their father disappears. Their mother recedes into the shadows while their other two sisters, spoiled and useless, exhaust the girls with unrelenting demands. Cinder decides to obtain work at the castle nearby to help support the family, while Ella, less tolerant and more

First of all one minor detail that still has quite an influence regarding this review... It's been almost a month since I read the book but some issues regarding my laptop (plus the fact that i had some sort of holidays and being lazy a bit too to start reviewing) so it's not so fresh in my mind the whole case of the book and normally i have forgotten some small things that i would normally point out if i had bothered to write this much earlier...Cinderella, perhaps the most famous fairytale

My review might be a little confusing, but once you read the book, it'll make more sense.I think I have said before how much I love fairytale retellings. I was determined to love Cinder and Ellabut I found that I merely enjoyed it. I thought the mothers fusing of Cinder and Ella was too quick. I think the idea was good, but it seems like it happened over the course of two or three days, rather than a few years. And why was she stuck at a spinning wheel? Was she enchanted or something? That part

Cinder and Ella is a re-telling of the classic story Cinderella. The story's main characters are two sisters called Cinder and Ella. The Evil Prince has put darkness into their Father's soul, causing him to change until one day he just disappears. His departure causes the family to fall apart. Cinder goes to work at the Castle and Ella having been forgotten by her family leaves to start a new life for herself. That is until three knight's turn up to take Ella back to the Castle with them. She

This is not your typical Cinderella story. There is a mother, a father, and four sisters. Everything was fine until one day the Prince came to their home and their father slowly started to become less like him self, until one day he just left never to return. The house that was so full of love and happiness slowly became a place where the eldest daughter Katrina got everything she wanted from their mother, the youngest Beatrice, was a spoiled brat who still acted like a very small child, and