VBT# Cinderella's Dress - Shonna Slayton

 

 

Review: Cinderella's Dress - Shonna Slayton - June 2014

As soon as I saw this title, I knew I wanted to read it as out of all the fairy-tales in the world, my favourite will always be Cinderella -so of course anything relating to Cinderella heads on to my ever-growing TBR pile. What was interesting with Cinderella's Dress is that it takes a new spin on the story intertwining it with a Polish background and theme. The story starts with a Queen trusting her best maid with a dress and telling her to go to the mountains and keep it safe as her stepsister's want it but the dress is too important to fall into the wrong hands. The dress is then passed down generation to generation along with a necklace , from that bloodline though it does skip family members if they are deemed not worthy of the cause. Now the main story is set in 1940's and is during the time of World War 2 and Kate is our main character. She is seventeen and has been given the amber necklace from her grandmother who has recently passed. She soon will discover when distant relatives arrive, that she is to be the new Keeper of the Dress and it is her job to keep it safe which of course won't be an easy task as the relatives from the stepsister's bloodlines want the dress and if it falls into the wrong hands, then disaster looms.  Is Kate up to the reponsibility of the Keeper of the Dress ?  Cinderella's Dress also touches on the issues at hand of the war and AWOL soldiers , missing family members and boyfriends who enlist and of course those families who are at home yearning for their loved ones at war.

If you love reading fairytale renditions with a twist and exploring other cultures , then check out Shonna Slayton's new release "Cinderella's Dress".