The Wronged Princess
Even when Cinderella loses her glass slipper, she feels quite smug when Prince Charming announces to his kingdom, he'll try the shoe on every maiden until he finds his mysterious princess. Unfortunately, it slides just as easily on her sister, Esmeralda's dainty foot.
Even when Cinderella loses her glass slipper, she feels quite smug when Prince Charming announces to his kingdom, he'll try the shoe on every maiden until he finds his mysterious princess. Unfortunately, it slides just as easily on her sister, Esmeralda's dainty foot.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780989279604
ASIN: B007MF3NK0
Publish date: March 15th 2012
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Pages no: 238
Edition language: English
Series: Cinderella (#1)
First, let's start with the good. This was an excellent fractured fairy tale. I liked how the absurd idea that only one woman would be able to fit the shoe was played at least partly for laughs, and the relationship between the sisters was a nice touch. Now for the bad. This book could really have...
The Wronged Princess had its moments, but it was very hard to ignore the various "t"s in it. "T'would", "t'was", "t'not"...I can understand using them in dialogue. When used that way, they lend an older world feeling to the characters using those phrases. All of the "t'woulds" were not regulated to ...