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Cinder & Ella by Kelly Oram
4.0

This book is kinda a retelling of Cinderella. It is about a girl named Ella and her internet best friend Cinder who is actually a famous actor Brian. Ella gets in a car accident in which her mother dies and she is left with burn scars. She then lives with her absent father who has a new wife and two twin step daughters.

At first I thought it would be a typical cliché Cinderella romance story except for the fact that her step mother and step sisters will love her in the end and they'll live happily ever after. But it wasn't.

I liked the fact that her family issues weren't still solved in the end. Her step sister Anastasia still didn't like her much and her step mother was polite to her but didn't totally accept her. This all made the book more realistic and that made the book much better.

I honestly think this book is not all about romance if you look it a certain way. It's much more than that like about how you have family issues and world criticizes you and even though they lessen, they actually don't disappear. You will always have problems. Life isn't perfect and this book highlights that point.

The romance with Cinder aka Brian was good but a little bit boring honestly. It could be just me or it could be the book. I don't know which.

It was a good book honestly.