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Christine
Sep 19, 2021 rated it liked it
Shelves: libraries, cinderella
Cinderella might just be the most popular fairy tale. Not surprising really, most of us feel under apprenticed or taken for granted. Cinderella works her fingers to the bone, but finally is elevated and is able to sit down. Of course, she is elevated because she is beautiful and nice.

Turgeon’s retelling of Cinderella is supposedly about the godmother who upsets the tale by falling in love with the prince destined to be Cinderella’s husband.

Part of what Turgeon is paying with is the idea of m ...more
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Fairlita
May 13, 2010 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: adaptation-or-retelling, fantasy-o-magical-realism, parallel-or-alternate-universe, folklore-fairytale_mythology_fable, parallel-storylines
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Fi
Mar 18, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, fantasy, pub-2009, library, read-in-2011, fairy-tale
Torn over the rating on this one, maybe 3.5 rather than the full 4 stars but this is closest. Loved this book even though it wasn't the cheeriest retelling of a fairy tale I've ever read! ...more
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Reem
Jun 30, 2009 marked it as to-read
Ginny
May 04, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fairy-tales, 100-books-2010-challenge
Laura
Nov 21, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: fairy-tales
Leah
Oct 12, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shannon Kitchens
Dec 31, 2011 rated it it was ok
Shelves: grown-up
Stephanie Cook
Mar 20, 2012 marked it as to-read
Gaijinmama
Mar 21, 2012 marked it as to-read
Jennifer
Jun 08, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: revisionist-lit, fairy
Sabina
Aug 30, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Becca
Sep 06, 2012 marked it as to-read
Wren
Mar 12, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fairy-tales
Patricia
Jan 11, 2014 marked it as to-read
Kyle
Mar 23, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: cinderella, fiction
Beth
Apr 10, 2014 marked it as retelling-fairy-tales
Ashley Perez
Apr 11, 2014 marked it as to-read
Faefae
Jun 17, 2014 marked it as to-read
Erin
Apr 27, 2017 rated it really liked it
Netanella
Oct 12, 2015 marked it as to-read
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