Stepsister Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher Hot Key Books
A beautiful cover with this sparkling black and red shining shoe, saying read me!
Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe … which is now filling with blood.
When the prince discovers Isabelle’s deception, she is turned away in shame. It’s no more than she deserves: she is a plain girl in a world that values beauty; a feisty girl in a world that wants her to be pliant.
Isabelle has tried to fit in. To live up to her mother’s expectations. To be like her stepsister. To be sweet. To be pretty. One by one, she has cut away pieces of herself in order to survive a world that doesn’t appreciate a girl like her. And that has made her mean, jealous, and hollow.
Until she gets a chance to alter her destiny and prove what ugly stepsisters have always known: it takes more than heartache to break a girl.
My Review
I adore this cover with a black and red sparkling, shiny shoe.
When I was younger being very girly I loved reading the Cinderella story, and I’m sure that many women now will remember reading that excitement.
Even seeing Cinderella in pantomime is so magical and enjoyable.
I found it thrilling for a change to read this fantasy magical powerful fairytale retelling of Cinderella in Stepsister.
Just like in Cinderella in the Stepsister the prince searched for the girl who had worn a glass slipper. He had danced all night with a beautiful girl at a masquerade ball and fallen in love with her, but as we know by the stoke of midnight, the girl had to run away, but a glass slipper had been left behind. And the prince vowed that he would marry the girl who had worn it.
Isabelle had a pretty face and dainty feet, if she marrys a prince she will be a princess and then one day be a queen.
An updated retelling story of Cinderella, with a difference, one that I recommend reading.
What a big surprise I didn’t know that Jennifer Donnelly is the author of thirteen novels and a picture book for children.
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