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Cinder & Ella
by Kelly Oram
I liked this a lot. I'm not a big fan of fairy-tale re-tellings, but I had access to the audio during an AudioEscape trial, and access to the text with my Kindle Unlimited plan. I didn't really turn to the text though, stuck with the audio.
Audio notes - on the one hand, I kind of wished there were two narrators. One for Ella and a male narrator for Cinder. To have complete chapters in the female pretending to be a male voice ... I think I would have preferred having more of a distinction between the characters telling the story. Then there is a struggle with the consistency, as the alternate narrators voice the other MC (so I actually really love duet narration)... so, this did have consistency going for it.
The MC is from Boston, so her pronunciation of car, heart, start, apart with an accent shouldn't have been surprising. It wasn't even overly accented, but anything with the "ah" sound just jumped out at me during the narration.
As for the story - I liked it a lot. Interesting setup, with Ella and Cinder being screen names (although Ella IS the MC's actual name too). Still a little surprised none of the characters came up with the whole "Cinderella" tie-in with the names, the step-mother and two step-sisters, the ball gown, etc. (until the very end when Brian brings it up).
So overall - this book had me anxious to continue, to come back to when I had to put it down. Easy to follow, not "deep" per se, just enjoyable ... and of course, a HEA.
Audio notes - on the one hand, I kind of wished there were two narrators. One for Ella and a male narrator for Cinder. To have complete chapters in the female pretending to be a male voice ... I think I would have preferred having more of a distinction between the characters telling the story. Then there is a struggle with the consistency, as the alternate narrators voice the other MC (so I actually really love duet narration)... so, this did have consistency going for it.
The MC is from Boston, so her pronunciation of car, heart, start, apart with an accent shouldn't have been surprising. It wasn't even overly accented, but anything with the "ah" sound just jumped out at me during the narration.
As for the story - I liked it a lot. Interesting setup, with Ella and Cinder being screen names (although Ella IS the MC's actual name too). Still a little surprised none of the characters came up with the whole "Cinderella" tie-in with the names, the step-mother and two step-sisters, the ball gown, etc. (until the very end when Brian brings it up).
So overall - this book had me anxious to continue, to come back to when I had to put it down. Easy to follow, not "deep" per se, just enjoyable ... and of course, a HEA.