5/30/2023 0 Comments Ella enchanted novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of her fairy-godmother-cum-family-cook, Ella keeps her curse a secret along the way she is sent off to finishing school with the cruel daughters of her simpering stepmother-to-be, launches a fruitless quest to beg Lucinda for release, and falls in love with Prince Charmont (and he with her). By the time she is a teenager, Ella has perfected the art of turning any imprecision in a command back on its giver. Lucinda, an extraordinarily foolish fairy, bestows on baby Eleanor the gift of obedience, condemning her to a childhood in which she's compelled to follow every order, no matter how casually given. Levine plays her debut expansion of the Cinderella story as a straight-well, nearly straight-romance, sloughing off its layers of Freudian symbolism and creating a lively, stubborn heroine to keep the action tumbling along. ![]()
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