A review by kathydubs10
Geekerella by Ashley Poston

4.0

I really enjoyed this modern day retelling of Cinderella! Normally, these re-tellings tend to be very dry and predictable. Poston followed the formula for Cinderella very well but it wasn't a text-book copy cat. She used really ingenious ways of nodding to Cinderella while still making it free-standing. I honestly forget it was based on Cinderella for most of the time it took me to read it! My one critique for this story would be how time was spent. I think for the length the book is, there would have been an adequate amount of space to fit before and after the convention, but the majority of the novel was spent before the book. I appreciated it because it gave us insight into what things meant, how characters act, etc. However, the end felt a bit too perfect and picturesque. It happened so quickly! I would have loved for the end to show some of these real life challenges and to be explored a bit more.