Julie's review
Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella" (Once Upon a Time)
by Cameron Dokey
I love Cinderella stories too. Any other recs?
Ella Enchanted is my favorite of the ones I listed in my review. The movie "The Prince and Me" isn't great art, but I really liked it. I haven't read a whole lot of others that are truly about the fairy tale, but in the broader sense of overcoming adversity and winning the prince, Jemima J by Jane Green is fun. Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest tetralogy is excellent example of an author using fairy tale commonplaces in unusual ways. And an adult version, without the happy ending, is John Burnham Schwartz' The Commoner, a fictionalized account of the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
Happy reading!
Thank so much!
I read Ella Enchanted and saw The Prince of Me too... I am also guilty of falling in love with both :)
Julie's review
Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella" (Once Upon a Time) by Cameron Dokey
Julie's review
rating:
I love Cinderella stories – from Cinder Edna (Ellen Jackson), Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine), and the Princess Diaries books through “Ever After.” There are a ton of picture-book versions: one where all the characters are made of flowers, a jazz-age flapper Cinderella, dogs photographed in ball gowns. My favorites feature plucky, not passive, Cinderellas. Before Midnight’s heroine, Cendrillon, is more on the passive side for my tastes, but otherwise there is a nice balance between tradition and innovation: it is set in a world where some wishes come true and magic events can occur, and there are fairy tale elements such as the mysterious boy brought up as the brother of Cendrillon. However, most people don’t have powers; it is an unspecified medieval-type time in a kingdom full of political intrigue, so the remarriage of Cinderella’s father is a strategic alliance. Of course we know that things will end up happily ever after, and the parenta...more
I love Cinderella stories too. Any other recs?
Ella Enchanted is my favorite of the ones I listed in my review. The movie "The Prince and Me" isn't great art, but I really liked it. I haven't read a whole lot of others that are truly about the fairy tale, but in the broader sense of overcoming adversity and winning the prince, Jemima J by Jane Green is fun. Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest tetralogy is excellent example of an author using fairy tale commonplaces in unusual ways. And an adult version, without the happy ending, is John Burnham Schwartz' The Commoner, a fictionalized account of the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.Happy reading!
Thank so much! I read Ella Enchanted and saw The Prince of Me too... I am also guilty of falling in love with both :)