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Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

22 reviews

crackergirl's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Gaslighting

robinsong's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

carochacord's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Trafficking, and Classism

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Pedophilia, Vomit, and Outing

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Homophobia, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

snail_slime's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, and Classism

Minor: Cursing, Death, Suicide, and Vomit

boekentrol's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Slavery, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Outing

zojkajacenko's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

OMG, THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ! IT IS MY NEW ALL-TIME FAVOURITE!!!! I BASICALLY UNDERLINED THE WHOLE BOOK!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Outing

vici24kl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

buywood's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring fast-paced

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

4.5

I absolutely loved this book, the only thing was the writing style sometimes (only sometimes, mostly it was fine) made the flow a bit strange, but the actual content of the book more than made up for it. I would definitely recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Sexism

Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Trafficking

annettewolf's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

As far as fairy-tale retellings/re-imaginings go, this is a solid story with excellent twists on the tale we're familiar with in its various versions. We have just enough grounding us in the familiar, with updated, about-damn-time feminist themes. And the protagonist is sapphic, which of course makes me happy.

Unfortunately, the writing didn't do it for me all the time. There were times when the characters would come up with a plan, but the plan didn't make much sense. It was kind of like a series of excuses to connect the beats, or get the characters to the right location for the next thing that the author knew was going to happen. That said, I honestly didn't see the plot twist coming at the end, so, that was well done.

The romance was a little insta-love-y to me, and I didn't feel like there was much to connect with, with the main character. In some ways it was like the plot was moving too fast to spend much time exploring how she was feeling about everything. I wanted to know how she felt about things with her parents, things with her girlfriend. And we got some tantalizing glimmers of her interest in witchcraft, but, again, not enough time spent on it to really explore the connection between witchcraft and resistance (or if you want to be really on-the-nose, smashing the patriarchy). There's somehow enough time to hang out at various locations for a week at a time to "come up with a plan" or prepare for a spell, but not enough time to explore her emotional state. That was a bummer.

I think we can always use re-imaginings of old stories. And this take on the Cinderella story is inventive and explores themes that I really love. Even if the writing wasn't always my cup of tea, I'm really glad this story exists to help introduce young readers to these themes, and give us a sapphic, Black protagonist who has a lot of traits to love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Vomit