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Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

35 reviews

cats33's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Confinement, Sexual violence, Torture, and Classism

kat_smith24's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

A bit predictable but it's twisty and turny.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Murder, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

sydthesciencekiddd's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

Don’t get me wrong I liked this book, I liked the idea, I liked the story, I liked (some) of the characters. But the way it was written was horrible. It’s written as a wattpad book made by 13 year olds. If this was a little wattpad book it would be higher but this was a professional edited book but an adult. I didn’t enjoy the main character for the first 3/4 in my opinion she was a horrible pick me that thought she was better than everyone. I liked her a little more at the end but she was still a pick me 😭, I think if this was rewritten it could be beyond amazing, like I said I love the plot. But at the same time it had plot holes and things that didn’t make sense but it was good, I rate it 2.25 ⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual violence

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Toxic relationship

I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ERIN

x_aura_x's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

mirandyli's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

An excellent retelling of Cinderella from the point of view of a sapphic poc. Predictable at times but still a delightful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

amazelan's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

c'est la meilleure réécriture de conte de fées que j'ai pu lire !

prendre le conte de Cendrillon, qui est honnêtement l'un des pires en terme de leçon pour une femme "elle doit être belle et son rêve le + grand, son + grand épanouissement est de se marier à un homme" et en faire une version féministe et lesbienne VRAIMENT QUELLE IDÉE INCROYABLE !

Sophia est un personnage principal vraiment chouette, qui évolue si vite dans le bon sens mais sans que ça devienne irréaliste, elle accroît sa haine de Manford et ses hommes mais ne devient pas experte du maniement des armes en 2 semaines par exemple

puisqu'elle n'arrive à le tuer que parce qu'il est déjà affaibli et en galérant.

puis juste slay elle est lesbienne et trop mimi dans sa manière de décrire ses sentiments aaaaaazkdnd
j'ai beaucoup aimé Amina aussi, le grey character du livre et SI BIEN ÉCRITE.
Constance en revanche aurait pu être plus développée, on ne voit d'elle que sa haine des hommes (slay) et sa grande débrouillardise, mais du coup ça n'en fait pas un personnage si intéressant que ça au final.
et Manford est vraiment un méchant en puissance, sa manière immonde de traiter les femmes - et la manière immonde de beaucoup d'hommes du roman à traiter les femmes - n'est pas atténuée ou enjolivée (side eye au dark romance dégueu) : c'est décrit comme ce que c'est, de la misogynie et des VSS.

c'était une lecture empouvoirante dans un sens, et je trouve ça nécessaire de remanier les contes de fées comme ça.
cependant, j'ai trouvé les plots twists et le déroulé général de l'histoire très prévisibles, et c'est assez lent.
je déteste cette phrase mais : "c'est plusse du côté jeunesse du young-adult" (ce qui est une bonne chose!!!! le young-adult ne doit pas être de la littérature adulte déguisée pcq les personnages sont jeunes!!!! mais mes goûts perso font que je me suis un peu ennuyé.e là du coup).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Child abuse and Abandonment

msbedelia's review

I understood that this was a "Black, queer Cinderella destroys the patriarchy" book for young adults (great premise!), but I didn't anticipate just how much unrelenting misogynist violence and violent rhetoric there would be to show just how bad the society she's fighting against is. I usually reach for YA for something lighter- even when themes are mature- but in terms of triggering events, this *feels* more like The Handmaid's Tale, and without the lyrical prose and insight that made that work so beautiful. This book might be *extremely* fun for someone in the age range it was intended for, but despite my curioristy for how it turns out (and what the truth about Cinderella is!), I have to DNF at this time. I can't do the unrelenting dystopia, and the overt nature/simplicity of the authoritarianism- while very much a YA genre feature- is also boring and grating to me. But again- would probably encourage a teenager to read it and see what they thought. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Sexual harassment

anonymous_traveller's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

queerghstbuster's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I almost dnf'd this book and although the ending was kinda great, I didn't enjoy from the half till almost the end of the book so I'm kinda sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual violence

broccoli_j's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book is similar to „the lunar chronicles“. The sapphic love story is very prominent in the book and the challenging of societal norms contains just sexism. 

All in all it’s a good book for a younger ya audience 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Classism