A retelling of Cinderella where the fairy tale is all a lie and the kingdom has been suffering as a result for two hundred years. There's still an annual ball where young ladies are paraded out so they can be chosen, and it's all very bad, and there's one girl named Sophie who wants to escape (and bring her girlfriend with her), but she can't! At least not until she meets a girl named Constance who is also determined to bring the king down, along with the whole kingdom.
I wanted to like this book more than I did; it's a fairy tale retelling with a queer protagonist about overthrowing patriarchal authoritarianism. But the telling itself never really grabbed me, and the shift from her relationship with Erin to her new relationship with Constance didn't really work for me. The overall world and final reveal was pretty interesting, so I was glad I finished it to find that out, but overall it's more of a miss for me.
Grade: C
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