Author: Christina Bauer
Series: Fairy Tales of the Magicorum #6
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Fairytales/Retelling
Publisher: Monster House Books
Publication Date: February 23rd, 2021
Edition: Kindle
Source: NetGalley
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Synopsis:
Cinderella On The Run
Elle—never call her Cinderella—has found the love of her life in Alec Le Charme, the prince of a jewelry dynasty. But when Alec gets spirited away, Elle must ditch her Manhattan home for the perilous Faerie Lands. To save Alec, Elle must also swap her glass slippers for a flying carpet. But will switching templates from Cinderella to Aladdin snap Elle’s sanity?
Whatever. Bring on the straight jacket. Elle is one Cinderella who’s determined to save her prince, no matter what.
Evil Stepsister or Elf Queen?
Agatha always accepted her role as Elle’s evil stepsister. Then her life template changes from nasty sibling to evil elf queen. Agatha has one thought on that score. Thanks but no thanks. Agatha refuses the regal life, even though stepping away from her crown means ignoring her lifelong attraction to the elf prince, Jacoby.
Then everything changes. Agatha discovers that Elle’s life is at risk… and the only way to save her Cinderella is by teaming up with Jacoby. Trouble is, that’s a lot of togetherness. Working with Jacoby could easily end in disaster, not only for Agatha’s heart, but also for Elle and Alec’s lives.
Elle—never call her Cinderella—has found the love of her life in Alec Le Charme, the prince of a jewelry dynasty. But when Alec gets spirited away, Elle must ditch her Manhattan home for the perilous Faerie Lands. To save Alec, Elle must also swap her glass slippers for a flying carpet. But will switching templates from Cinderella to Aladdin snap Elle’s sanity?
Whatever. Bring on the straight jacket. Elle is one Cinderella who’s determined to save her prince, no matter what.
Evil Stepsister or Elf Queen?
Agatha always accepted her role as Elle’s evil stepsister. Then her life template changes from nasty sibling to evil elf queen. Agatha has one thought on that score. Thanks but no thanks. Agatha refuses the regal life, even though stepping away from her crown means ignoring her lifelong attraction to the elf prince, Jacoby.
Then everything changes. Agatha discovers that Elle’s life is at risk… and the only way to save her Cinderella is by teaming up with Jacoby. Trouble is, that’s a lot of togetherness. Working with Jacoby could easily end in disaster, not only for Agatha’s heart, but also for Elle and Alec’s lives.
*****
This book had a lot more going on than the previous book. Though the pacing was a bit off at times, and the chapters felt too short to really develop the characters and show them reacting to the things happening to and around them. A brief sentence or short paragraph was all that's given when anything happens to a character to express how they feel about any of it. This is still a fairly long book, and it's a lot a sequence of events that happen quickly, to get to the next set of action events.
I'm also not sure when our villain decided that Elle wasn't who she was looking for anymore and Agatha was. It kind of came out of nowhere.
There was a lot to like about this book, I just wish more of it had been expanded. The climax of this book also happened really quickly, and I didn't feel like the stakes that were set up matched what happened in a way. They also resolved the consequences that I felt cheapened things. There were some character deaths, that were resolved in a way that removed the impact of their deaths, and how the deaths were, for lack of a better word, resolved also had no consequence. It all just came out a little underwhelming. The book ends very abruptly as well. The stakes presented, didn't have the same impact and outcome as implied.
I do wish Agatha had been a bigger part of earlier books. She was more or less introduced as a character at the end of the previous book and becomes a POV character in this one and we're expected to form an attachment to her in a very short amount of time. I do stand by my opinion that while I don't love these books, they are a good bridge series from Middle Grade to Young Adult.
I'm also not sure when our villain decided that Elle wasn't who she was looking for anymore and Agatha was. It kind of came out of nowhere.
There was a lot to like about this book, I just wish more of it had been expanded. The climax of this book also happened really quickly, and I didn't feel like the stakes that were set up matched what happened in a way. They also resolved the consequences that I felt cheapened things. There were some character deaths, that were resolved in a way that removed the impact of their deaths, and how the deaths were, for lack of a better word, resolved also had no consequence. It all just came out a little underwhelming. The book ends very abruptly as well. The stakes presented, didn't have the same impact and outcome as implied.
I do wish Agatha had been a bigger part of earlier books. She was more or less introduced as a character at the end of the previous book and becomes a POV character in this one and we're expected to form an attachment to her in a very short amount of time. I do stand by my opinion that while I don't love these books, they are a good bridge series from Middle Grade to Young Adult.
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