Cinder & Ella
By Kelly Oram
About:
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Hollywood sensation Brian Oliver has a reputation for being trouble. There’s major buzz around his performance in his upcoming film The Druid Prince, but his management team says he won’t make the transition from teen heartthrob to serious A-list actor unless he can prove he’s left his wild days behind and become a mature adult. In order to douse the flames on Brian’s bad-boy reputation, his management stages a fake engagement for him to his co-star Kaylee. Brian isn’t thrilled with the arrangement—or his fake fiancée—but decides he’ll suffer through it if it means he’ll get an Oscar nomination. Then a surprise email from an old Internet friend changes everything.
Source: Goodreads
My rating: 4.5/5
My Thoughts:
A total swoon-worthy read. As you can guess from the name,
this is a re-telling of Cinderella but with twice as many twists and drama.
Ella meets Cinder through her blog and their regular banter on books and movies
makes them best friends. Neither knows the other’s real name, so Ella has no
idea that Cinder Is in fact heart throb and movie star Brian Oliver. The day Cinder
asks for Ella’s address to post her a signed first edition of her favourite
book, she’s involved in a car accident that costs her mum’s life and leaves her
crippled with permanent scars over her body.
I’m a sucker for love stories and I really shouldn’t have
read this during NaNoWriMo because it’s too addictive to put down. I was
waiting to find out when Ella would meet Cinder, what would happen, and so on.
Of course there’s a happily ever after but Ella goes through so much and her
pain was so real. People could be so cruel, and it was horrible to see how much
she had to deal with, but I was so happy for her when she finally gets her
fairytale ending.
One of the things I really enjoyed was the way the author explained
Ella’s flaws. Although she had been through a lot, sometimes she caused the
distance and bitterness between herself and others, especially her family. It
made the story more realistic to learn that even Ella had a few things to work
on.
Cinder (Brian) and Ella argue more than anything and their
chemistry shone through the book. I liked the introduction of her friend Vivian’s
gay fathers too, it was nice to mix it up. In the original story of Cinderella,
Cinder’s animal friends help her dream come true, whereas here it was her step
sister and friends. Cinder & Ella was an adorable and contemporary
retelling of a much-loved classic.
Zed (:
Favourite Quotes:
“At least the stepwitches aren’t home. Jennifer may be
tactless, but at least she tries to be nice. Witch One and Witch Two make the
devil sound tame.”
“I can’t help it if all people want to talk about when they
interview me is my abs and whether or not I’d consider dating a fan. It’s not
my fault that I’m too damn good-looking to be taken seriously.”
EllaTheRealHero: Sure you can, rock star. You wouldn’t know
normal if it bit you on your ridiculously good-looking face.
Cinder458: You’ve never seen my face. How do you know it’s good-looking?
EllaTheRealHero: Because no ugly person could have an ego as big as yours.
Cinder458: You’ve never seen my face. How do you know it’s good-looking?
EllaTheRealHero: Because no ugly person could have an ego as big as yours.
“There’s no way I’m going anywhere near the upstairs with
Ana in the mood she’s in, and I really don’t care about Ella’s love life.
Besides, she’s not supposed to be alone, anyway. What if she tries to throw
herself off the balcony or something?”
Was there anyone in the world that didn’t feel the need to humiliate me?
Was there anyone in the world that didn’t feel the need to humiliate me?
“I didn’t realize upping our relationship to phone buddies
would come with a boyfriend title. Does that mean I we ever meet in person, we’ll
have to get married?”
“I don’t go out there much,” I admitted, laughing. “With my
luck, we’d have an earthquake and I’d plummet down the cliff and live through
it.”
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