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hokielin's review against another edition
3.0
Good, solid book. Not overly thrilling or interesting and twisty like Wicked was but still a fun read.
leslie_turner0121's review against another edition
3.0
Great rendition of the flip side of a story we all know and love.
meghan_moore's review against another edition
4.0
It was a little slow to get started, but after a bit it went so fast. Great book.
susannavs's review against another edition
3.0
Hm. A different retelling. Enjoyable in some ways. Better than Wicked though.
chelse34's review against another edition
2.0
This was my first Maguire book, and I listened to it because it was the only format I could find available.
I love fairy tale retellings, but this one just didn't do it for me. He tells it from the step sister perspective, and they don't even meet Clara (the Cinderella character) until about halfway through. There were lots of little details and things that didn't necessarily relate to the main Cinderella story. Just wasn't my favorite.
I love fairy tale retellings, but this one just didn't do it for me. He tells it from the step sister perspective, and they don't even meet Clara (the Cinderella character) until about halfway through. There were lots of little details and things that didn't necessarily relate to the main Cinderella story. Just wasn't my favorite.
sarah_reading_party's review against another edition
Could not read. Abandoned about 1/3 of the way in…so boring, so tedious
eastofthesunwestofthemoon's review against another edition
2.0
I really liked the first third of the book. Then it started getting tedious and steadily less and less engaging. Sometimes a fairy tale is better off as it was than belabored with a lengthy and rather depressing in-depth story line. It's reasonably well-written, but in the end it's just not the sort of book I enjoy.
amylynn79's review against another edition
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
angmsmith1's review against another edition
5.0
I have some trouble admitting that I like Gregory Maguire's books because they're technically categorized as "sci-fi", but I really do. I like the idea of taking a popular story (in this case, Cinderella) and looking at it from the viewpoint of a different character, or looking at the past to see what led to the story that we all know (the glass slipper and the prince's ball).
gelabray's review against another edition
4.0
Like Wicked, I appreciated the twist on the story line. I found it to be a easy read as compared to Wicked which was a little more complicated in its language and story line. I valued the relationships the characters had with each other. The realistic perspective is far better than the "happily ever after" lens.