I love a good Cinderella story. This, I'm sad to say, is barely an OK Cinderella story.

I'm not going to lie; despite the many and often epic flaws, this series held my attention. The concept and plot are entertaining, with deception, love, loss, and battles galore.

However, the frequent formatting and grammatical problems (not always an author's fault with e-books) compounded with one dimentional characters who were frequently beautiful or ugly but rarely picturable, an easily recognized villain, glaring plot holes and chronological errors based on past plot all added up to a book with huge potential and minor enjoyment. The writing tells the tale, but in a juvenile manner, and though the protagonist is somewhere between 18 and 20 (another chronological mystery as she seems to stay the age of 19 over almost 2 years of action) the writing makes the protagonist and most other character seem younger than their purported ages.