Summary: Danielle Whiteshore (aka Cinderella) finds out that just because a fairy tale ends doesn’t make it “Happily Ever After.” Instead, her husband, the Prince, gets kidnapped by her two wicked stepsisters. So she sets out with Talia (Sleeping Beauty) and Snow (White) to get him back.
Okay, so I was little biased towards this one out of the gate. On the one hand, I heard great reviews from all of my friends and on another, I LOVE fairy tales and their retellings. So, yeah. But I have to say regardless of all that it was still a really good story. For one thing, it was wrought with a lot of conflicting stuff. For one thing, they heroines almost loose. I’m not joking. The bad guys have them right where they want them, and Talia actually abandons Snow and Danielle to a horrible fate because she’s terrified of what magic can do to her.
For another thing the characters are quite well written. You see reason behind their action, even though Hines does go to some lengths to explain things that could have been a little better done, but still, he writes all three women rather well (Talia as jaded, Snow as a romantic and Danielle as a little naïve). Plus I thought the way they were written coincided very well with their original fairytale back stories, though he does tend to use the less popular versions for their back stories (which I also really liked, because not enough of those get attention).
This turned out to be a really imaginative retelling and I am very happy to have read it.
First Published: 2009
First Published: 2009
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