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Summary: Lacks conflict
Review: The fairy Lucinda gives Ella the gift of obedience at birth. Now, Ella must do whatever she is ordered to do. A few people realize this and take advantage of her. Ella fears the day someone will make her do something bad. The book is slow and never has any major conflict. It feels like a cheap romance novel, minus the romance.
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Summary: Happily Ever After
Review: I'm a really big reader, but it is still rare when a book gets me like this one did. I don't really know what it was, but from the beginning, I was hooked and kept reading and reading until I finished. There was even a moment our two where I noticed myself shaking from the pure joy of this read. Ella Enchanted is exciting, with nearly every chapter ending in cliffhanger. It is funny, Ella's curse of obediance and her extraordinary wit providing most of the laughs. It is dark at times, which any great fantasy must be. And that darkness is overshadowed by Ella's humor, love, and indomitable will. Ella Enchanted is one of the most truly enchanting reads I have ever had, and I know that every time I am the least bit down, I will be able to pick this one up a feel fine.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!
Review: I've had this book forever, and it is really one of the best books I have ever read! I enjoy twisted fairy tales, and this is definetly the best! The characters are amazing, the plot flawless, and the whole thing is really undescibable. If you don't already own it, go out and but it now, because it is definetly worth the amount it costs! The only advice I have is if you really enjoy the story and are picky about movies sticking to the book, DO NOT SEE THE MOVIE! The plot is pretty much massacred, so I don't reccomend the movie at all. Save yourself the torture and read the book instead! :)
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Summary: Well worth a read
Review: I wouldn't have thought to buy this book if I hadn't heard an interview with the author on the radio. She read from "Ella Enchanted" and I was hooked. I should say I am *not* the target audience-I'm an over-30 woman who illustrates for children myself, and I still reread my favorite stories from my childhood, rarely picking up new YA novels-because usually from a skimming in the bookstore I don't find ones well-written enough to bother buying. This one is happily different. It's not perfect, but it IS well above average in its writing quality, the author has a way with characters that takes it out of the two-dimensional realm of all too many fantasies, and she's got a great, often very original imagination. Somehow she manages to paint both a fantasy world and the inner life of a very frustrated, willful teen girl equally well. I'm sure this is and will continue to be many girls' "favourite book".
That said, I'll add one caveat: I have to agree with another reviewer who mentioned their disappointment with the portrayal of the "ugly stepsisters": basically, to fully get across their inherent meanness and "ugliness", they're depicted as not only stupid(really, in the case of the younger one, borderline "developmentally disabled"), but-horror of horrors!-FAT. That is to say, "piggish" in every sense of the word. There are scenes of Ella, the heroine, nauseated at the sight of these two wolfing down food, dribbling it on their double chins and staining their clothes by their pure gluttony. All well and good, maybe-but this is supposed to be very much a "modern" fairy tale, in the sense of turning the cliches on their heads, and it's a real shame that Ms. Levine's imagination failed her here. She might have chosen to play AGAINST the "Grimm's fairy tale" type, and have the stepsisters be ugly only on the INSIDE-certainly it's unfortunate in a book for young girls to equate obesity with stupidity and greed and everything ugly. Same goes for the portrait of the stepmother. Actually, in my experience, this sort of status-conscious, elitist person is always rail-thin(to the point of anorexia), hardly "plump"-but that's much more grotesque to Levine, apparently.
Otherwise, a swell book.
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Summary: :|: My Absolute Favorite Book of All Time! :|:
Review: This is definitely the most utterly intriquing and charming books I have ever read! Levine is truly an ingenious author and this unique retelling of the Cinderella story was so enthralling I couldn't put it down. And I haven't been able to since; I've reread it over 10 times! And even though this novel reading level is years below mine...I still love it! It is what got me obsessed with fairy tale retellings and just reading in general. I was disappointed with the movie which was a completely different plot all together and just plain ridiculous. So skip the movie entirely and read the real and FANTASTIC Ella Enchanted!!
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Summary: Ella Enchanted
Review: I absolutly loved this book. Every page was wonderful. The end of each chapter was a cliff-hanger, It pulled me in even more. In this book, the main character Ella, has been given a gift, or curse. Anything anybody tells her to do, she is forced to do. She hates the gift of obediance, but the fairy who gave it to her, Lucinda, thinks it is a blessing. In this book, Ella is out to lose the gift. It is a wonderful book, and it is also humorous. I would suggest this book to girls. If you have not read this book, I would advise you give it a try!
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Summary: Best book ever!
Review: Ella Enchanted has been a treat to read! My 5th grade class has been reading it so we could go on a field trip to see the movie! This book has been awesome, and my students love it so much! This is a MUST READ!
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Summary: This is my favorite book of all time
Review: I love this book, and even my friends who dont like fantasy literature love it. I dont love it because i relate to it, and i dont know really anyone who would because not many people i know of have a curse of obedience, or any curse at all. Anyways, i have read this book about 5 times, and im still not sick of it. This book has everything, love, a strong leading female character, a prince with freckles and blonde hair, ogres, elves, and faries. Ahhh.. i love this book. I would recommend this book for any age, even my mom likes it. And this is NOTHING like the movie, which is stupid and has barely anything to do with the plot of the book it is based on. I dont see why they had to ruin this book in order to make money in the box office. So, everyone should read this book, and if you like this you will also like Two Princesses of Bamarre and the His Dark Materials series.
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Summary: ELLA ENCHANTED- WOWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: ELLA ENCHANTED is a book with a girl named Ella, who is under a spell her godmother gave her. Her godmother gave her a gift called the Obedience Gift, which makes her do whatever someone commands her to do, even cutting her head off by herself. Then she goes off on her mission to get her godmother to take the spell back. On the way, she meets a prince her age, named Char( Prince Charmont). They fall in love and Char tries to convince Ella to marry him. Ella refused to marry Char, because she didn't want to endanger Char and his kingdom.
ELLA ENCHANTED is truly a book with romance, and adventure. For those who like this book, I would TOTALLY recommend the movie that just came out. HONESTLY, Char in the movie is just SO(...) HOT(...)! I saw the movie yesterday, and I LOVED(...) it SOOO much!!! It's a great movie to see. I think it is the BEST romance movie I ever watched that were for teenagers!! WATCH IT IF YOU DID NOT YET!!!( the movie)
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Summary: Ella Narrates Her Own Story.
Review: I think Ella did such a wonderful job of narrating her own story and the way she bravely faced Lucinda after she grew up.Char meets Ella for the first time at her mother's death and falls in love with her at three balls at a time. My most favorite part of this story is when Ella and Char marry each other at the end. Ella Enchanted is now a brand new motion picture in theatres.
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