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A review by smakinde
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
3.0
Okay let's talk about it.
First off, I love how the author changed Cinderella's story from this damsel in distress to her wanting to kill the King(who surprise is actually Prince Charming), but he has some magical evil powers that are connected to (surprise) his mom who is the "fairy godmother", really a witch. So he is able to live a lonnnnnng time. He killed her parents and then had his mom aka the witch aka the fairy godmother give her this potion that would make her fall in love with him, but it wore off and she found herself married to him and hating him. I also really liked that Sophia at 16 living in this world where women were treated as property, decided that she did not want that life. She wanted to be the Knight, not married to one. I love that she was in love with her bestie Erin and while that didn't work out, they had a cute story.
I liked that the message was about breaking down the world construct that is put on women and being who you are. The message was awesome and I would encourage any woman to read it for that sole purpose.
Her goal is to take down the king and while she does accomplish that(after meeting Constance who is the last surviving family member of Cinderella), the story was lacking in the world building that it so desperately needed. We see little glimpses of Sophia's life, but nothing to really connects us to her in a way that would have made this story 10x better. It was also really hard to connect her and Constance. While they have cute little moments and they obviously like each other, there wasn't IMO any real connection in their journey to find the fairy godmother.
It was also really hard to enjoy the second half of the book because of the random scenes with the King. He showed up randomly and killed a woman that was connected to Sophia in front of a large crowd in the market...while that was awful, it didn't really make sense to me to place that moment there. Then he showed up at the fairy godmothers house just out of the blue and it just kept taking me out of the story.
First off, I love how the author changed Cinderella's story from this damsel in distress to her wanting to kill the King(who surprise is actually Prince Charming), but he has some magical evil powers that are connected to (surprise) his mom who is the "fairy godmother", really a witch. So he is able to live a lonnnnnng time. He killed her parents and then had his mom aka the witch aka the fairy godmother give her this potion that would make her fall in love with him, but it wore off and she found herself married to him and hating him. I also really liked that Sophia at 16 living in this world where women were treated as property, decided that she did not want that life. She wanted to be the Knight, not married to one. I love that she was in love with her bestie Erin and while that didn't work out, they had a cute story.
I liked that the message was about breaking down the world construct that is put on women and being who you are. The message was awesome and I would encourage any woman to read it for that sole purpose.
Her goal is to take down the king and while she does accomplish that(after meeting Constance who is the last surviving family member of Cinderella), the story was lacking in the world building that it so desperately needed. We see little glimpses of Sophia's life, but nothing to really connects us to her in a way that would have made this story 10x better. It was also really hard to connect her and Constance. While they have cute little moments and they obviously like each other, there wasn't IMO any real connection in their journey to find the fairy godmother.
It was also really hard to enjoy the second half of the book because of the random scenes with the King. He showed up randomly and killed a woman that was connected to Sophia in front of a large crowd in the market...while that was awful, it didn't really make sense to me to place that moment there. Then he showed up at the fairy godmothers house just out of the blue and it just kept taking me out of the story.