Review: The Ugly Stepsister - Aya Ling

 

Review: The Ugly Stepsister - Aya Ling - June 2015

As readers of The Phantom Paragrapher will know, I am a huge fan of rendition based stories and tales. One of my favourites is Cinderella. In The Ugly Stepsister, Kat is sent upstairs to the attic to clean out her old books and boxes. In one of them she finds a real old copy of Cinderella , she opens it and "ripppppp" the books pages fall apart in her hands. All of a sudden, she wakes up as Katriona , one of the Ugly Stepsisters from the tale of Cinderella. She is now living in the storybook world of Cinderella and if she can't fix the story , she will have to remain there forever . Kat learns that the book she ripped was cursed by the Goblin King and the only way to get home is to finish the story. The thing is though , only the first page is intact - the rest of the story she will have to re-create. What will happen though when her idea of Cinderella does not match up with the reality she is living ? Kat meets her Cinderella aka Elle Thatcher - the thing is though that Elle has another family and isn't living in the castle , then when Kat meets the Prince and his friend Henry - the prince only has eyes for Kat and Elle likes Henry.  The moral of this story though is never give up and if you at first fail, try -try again and the outcomes may surprise you as the tale transforms from Cinderella to The Ugly Stepsister. 

The Ugly Stepsister by Aya Ling is the perfect read for all those fans of Cinderella and Twisted Fairytales.