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Summary: ~just her``
Review: Just Ella is written in a totally mannered way for young adults to enjoy. This book is another one of the retold stories ever made but this time Ella didn't really end up with her Prince Charming but Prince Charming turned out to be more like Prince Boring. Ella is struggling to find a way on how she can break her engagement with the prince and find her tutor Jed who can give her what she is looking for.
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Summary: not good
Review: I didn't think this book was as good as Ella Enchanted. I don't think you should write a sequal to someone else's book. In Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine finished the book, so there was no need for a sequal. In Just Ella, Margaret Haddix changed the story totally. She changed too many things to make the book good. Margaret Haddix, first of all, read the book you're writing the sequal to and don't change things. Second of all, if you wanted to change the book so much, just write a whole new one. I would not recommend this book. However, I would recommend Ella Enchanted. I give Ella Enchanted 5 stars.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This was a great book. It made me laugh, smile, and even almost cry at one point. Ella really showed her emotions, and explained in a wondeful way how much she didn't like castle life. It showed that she was independant, and not a princess who wanted to be thrown around. I loved the realism as well. But I wish it hadn't ended like it had. There was a lot left open.
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Summary: Big dissapointment
Review: Just Ella was Just Horrible! The characters were two dementional boring and very perdictable. The ending was like the author just wanted to finish the book. the only credit i give is that she wrote a new side of a classic story, which has been done already! over all don't waste your money. a good book you can read on this sort of subject is Ella Enchanted. it is very good.
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Summary: Just Ella
Review: This book is good, but it doesn't come close to Ella Enchanted. I'm not saying this is a bad book, it's really good. I gave it 4 stars because it lacked some minor details..I really liked the twist, and the fact that in this story, Ella, doesn't want to be with Prince Charming. It was real interesting to read b/c in all the Cinderella retellings, the Cinderella always wants to be with the Prince....read this book and see for yourself!
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Summary: Forcing Fate
Review: I thought this was a fascinating book on Cinderella's life. It was Cinderella's story from a different prospective. Instead of happily ever after it is more like unhappily ever after. Ella, a fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to marry Prince Charming. Everything is great...until she has to move into the castle and take etiquette classes and be a lady in waiting. This is something she is not used to at all. At her old house she did everything no matter how dirty her fingernails got. Madame Bisset gets hysterical every time Ella tries to do something herself. This is not what castle life is supposed to be like she thinks. But after her new teacher, Jed, comes Ella gets much happier. He talks to her about important things that really matter unlike Prince Charming. Ella finds he is unoriginal, boring and couldn't have a thought of his own if it killed him. She cherishes the time she spends with Jed because he is the only person in the castle that talks to her like a normal person. Ella wants out, but when she ends up locked in the dungeon for trying to get out of marrying the prince, she finds it is more difficult than she thought. Ella knows she must get out. But how is the hard part. This is a book that I couldn't wait to finish reading. At first it started out like a normal fairy tale but by the end it was well worth my time. You can never tell what is going to happen but the end is a good surprise. It shows that even castle life is not as perfect as people think. Even for a princess not everything goes the way she wants.
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Summary: Just Ella
Review: Just Ella is cinderella, but in a distorted way. Ella has already married the prince and lives in the castle, but then finds out she doesn't like him because all he cares about is her beauty. Along the way she meets Jed, who is a few years older than her and is one of her teachers. Even though most want the fairy tale of living happily ever after with the prince, you know Ella and Jed will be together.
This is a book you should read to remind yourself that no life is perfect, even a princesses. It will remind you of how bad you want you want to be the princess, and will leave you feeling like a kid again. Give the book a chance and you'll be happy you did.
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Summary: Just Ella is Just Wonderful
Review: If you liked Ella Enchanted, you will absolutely love this book!
A great story about Cinderella who is now the prince's betrothed.
But she hates the endless lessons on how to be a proper princess.
And after sometime she begins to doubt her decision to
marry the prince was such a good idea.
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Summary: A poor Cinderella
Review: Having read many novels based on the story of Cinderella and other fairy tales, I felt that this one was not on the same level as other great stories, such as Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. I liked that this novel took place after Cinderella's marriage, yet the author could have done a much better job with such a good story. I did not like Haddix's style of writing and found her protagonist and the protagonist's love interest underdeveloped, as was their romance. Hopefully, some other author will produce a better continuation of Cinderella's life.
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Summary: Not what I expected....
Review: The continuation of the Cinderella fairytale is wonderful. Ella really "grows up" in this book and starts to make her own decisions. However, I found the character herself didn't seem to fit the time period. The book is set in a medieval setting and Ella is supposed to be 14 years old. At times the author treats her as a child and at others times like someone in their mid-20's. Also, the character's attitude and speech was more like someone of the 20th/21st century, making it difficult to place her in this period. It was hard to keep a consistent image of the character as I read the book.I may be overly critical as I was expecting GREAT things from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Her book "Running Out of Time" was magnificent and I was hoping for more of the same quality. Overall, a good book, but not what I expected.
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