Review: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

SUMMARY
It's Cinderella! Only Ella (of the cinders) is cursed and has to do everything she's told. OH NOES. Her father's mean, her stepsisters are cruel and dull (respectively), her Mandy is cozy, and her prince is pretty much awesome.

Okay, so I don't summarize well.

This was my favorite book from when my sister read it to me till I decided I couldn't have a favorite book. I don't have dates for either of those, but it was a number of years. Gail Carson Levine has a way of writing that I just couldn't resist; I read this over and over again, often staying up late, even when I knew what was going to happen next, could recite bits from memory. I laughed out loud.

AURGH I should refuse to say generic things like "thrilling" and "awesome," and I should describe the book and not my reaction. W00T THE TROUBLES OF A REVIEW BLOG

Ella was realistic. She was headstrong, she made mistakes, she was a person. Olga and Olive were slightly less realistic, and Hattie mostly just wasn't, but if you say a word against this book I will comment with angry exclamation points. (Read: murder you.)

It's about her struggles with the curse and everybody around her, and it's funny and startling and brilliant and I love it SO MUCH. CAN YOU TELL.

87 cappertillers.