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It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella’s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all–and in the process, they learn that there’s more to Cinderella’s story than they ever knew . . . This fresh take on a classic story will make readers question the tales they’ve been told, and root for girls to break down the constructs of the world around them.
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0I was very excited to read this because I loved Kaylynn Baron's Poison Heart duology. It was fantastic.
I listened to this book on audio, and I love the narrator, I have listened to her on multiple occasions, but the breaks between speech and a "she said" were a chasm. I listen at 2x speed, and some of the pauses between these were very long still.
That being said this book was fun. I loved the twist on the Cinderella story. I loved the way the story was a bit of a horror, a bit of fantasy, a bit of retelling.
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