My only criticism would be the pace of the book was quite slow at times and and therefore not as engaging as it might have been. I liked how every part of the story came together to make such a fantastic conclusion. My favourite part of the book was definitely the end. In my view it is no different to reading a book about a man when you are a woman and vice versa it can provide insight into another person’s perspective. On the contrary, I thought that it was good to see such a positive representation of queer people, especially women in a book, at a time when there are so many discussions regarding these important issues of equality. I don’t think it should matter that it is a gay love story to any reader, whatever their sexual orientation, it certainly didn’t matter to me. The most important characters in the story of the rebellion are women, and the main figure is a Black, Queer woman (rarely placed as central protagonists and criminally under-represented in literature). The plot is very clever and the re-telling of the well known Cinderella tale is highly original. I enjoyed this story and think that Sophia as a character is well developed and lovable. Set in the town Mersailles, where every girl lives in fear of the day she is chosen by the King to attend the ball, it follows a girl who is determined to destroy the cruel rules she’s been forced to follow called Sophia. Cinderella Is Dead is a re-telling of the classic fairy-tale, Cinderella.
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