Cinderella Assassin
A Glass Slipper Adventure
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Publisher Description
She wishes she could fit in. But if humans discover her secret, her life will be no fairytale.
Ellery “Elle” Milford needs to keep her fairy heritage undercover. But after her wicked stepmother refuses to let her go to the royal ball with the fully human kids, the sixteen-year-old half-breed defiantly parties with her smoke sprite bestie… who promptly gets arrested. And the only way to rescue her is for Elle to cut a deal with her fairy godmother: All the magic necessary to infiltrate the palace in exchange for assassinating the prince.
Determined not to harm a hair on the heir’s noble head, the reluctant hitwoman’s mission goes sideways when she falls for the very guy she’s supposed to kill. And after uncovering a plot to destroy every single supernatural creature, Elle is torn between the desires of her heart and the needs of her magical friends.
Can the headstrong half-fairy juggle a budding romance with a daring prison break before it all vanishes in a puff of smoke?
Cinderella Assassin is the first book in the charming Glass Slipper Adventure YA fantasy series. If you like spirited heroines, clever takes on classics, and unique blends of tech and wizardry, then you’ll love Allie Burton’s spellbinding story.
Buy Cinderella Assassin to dance into danger today!
Other books in the series include: Cinderella Soldier, Cinderella Spy, Snow Wicked White, Snow Warrior White, and Snow Witching White.
“What a great story - super unique retelling! Characters were so dynamic and interesting. I loved it!” – Reviewer
Customer Reviews
Recommended
I really enjoyed this book and I’m looking forward to reading the sequels. There are all the elements of the original fairytale the wicked stepmother to obnoxious stepsisters post Cinderella as their slave and a prince.
But this is not the Disney sweet fairytale. The fairy godmother appears to be a bully perhaps with a good reason later on in the book. Cinderella herself has magic and there are different magical creatures galore who are met along her quest. And Cinderella has two men who are interested in her what a lucky girl!!!
The writing was very descriptive and one could certainly envisage that world and its inhabitants.
On a deeper level it is a coming of age, a right of passage, of accepting the duality of self and especially the part that one wishes to keep secret. It took a night for Cinderella to accept her full self through a series of challenges and friendships made and lost along the way, and to give up the idea of fitting in and being “normal”. It has taken me a lifetime to accept that I am not normal and that I don’t fit in all the time but that it is okay.
One constructive criticism I would make (being a right of myself) is that the author only had one way of describing Cinderellas tension/ frustration/ anger ie her hands fisted. Personally I would have use several other adjectives or phrases such as clenched hands, fingers curled in fury, balled her hands and anger et cetera.
Aside from that last point I do highly recommend this book.
Enjoyable
Slow to start but enjoyed once the story got going. Now need to get the next in the series. I did think at one point that the plot was lost but the more I read the more I understood the way in which the story was going.