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Summary: Needs a mind of its own
Review: I thought the beginning of the book was great. There were many details and lots of descriptive language. I had no idea where it was going to until about the last 5 chapters when i knew it was an almost complete replica of Cinderella. The ending shoud've ended more individual.
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Summary: A terrific book for young and old!
Review: I was really impressed with this book. When I picked it up I thought it was going to be a book like the Midwife's Apprentice, a dull book about Midevil life. In fact, when I bought it at the bookfair, I kept it for a year before finally deciding to read it. When I did, I was hooked. I loved imagining Ella's journey through a land of ogres and elves and unicorns. I instantly fell in love with the book and I could not put it down. The romance story really moved me. I recommend this book to anyone who is in love with fairy stories and falling in love.
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Summary: Don't think just buy it!
Review: I practically had to get down on my knees to convince myparents to buy me this book. When they read it, however, theyremarked that this was one of the funniest and well-written books ever written.Gail Carson Levine is one talented author! This is a modern look on the fairy tale Cinderella. It really puts it in a new perspective. Like, it makes the old Cinderella look about as interesting as old clothes. And it answers all those unanswered questions. Like, why wasn't Cinderella recognized at the ball? Because it was a masked one! When Ella of Frell is cursed by the fairy Lucinda that she will always be obedient, Ella lives in a danger that she will be ordered to do something that will harm her. Ella is friends with only her lovable cook Mandy and her mother, lest someone should find out her secret. When her mother dies, Ella meets two utterly repulsive sisters, Hattie and Olive. Hattie figures out that Ella must obey everyone and makes Ella her personal slave when they go to finishing school together. However, Ella also makes a more pleasant friend, the Prince Charmont (by the way, Charmont is French for charming! ). Ella and Charmont meet again when Ella runs away from finishing school, when Ella saves herself from ogres. But when Ella meets her conniving father, she is devastated to learn that Hattie and Olive will become her stepsisters! Ella becomes the slave of the two girls and their fat mother. She correspondes to Char(mont) secretly. But when Char tells her that he loves her, Ella doesn't know what to do. If she marries Char, and Hattie (who has a crush on the prince) tells her to divorce him, she will have to obey her. So Ella pretends she is Hattie and writes that Ella has eloped. Will Char and Ella get together? Find out. Read this excellent book right away!
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Summary: I loved it
Review: It's a great book for people that do not think that theCinderella story is very convincing. I think that it makes a greatbook to read to classes and one that is good to read by yourself.
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Summary: Ella is to fast ending
Review: The book of Ella Enchanted is a great new version of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. I did enjoy the new twist of the story, but I do have a few questions or hinderences about the way that it ends so abruptly. The entire story ,all the way through, most of the chapters were full of fabulous detail that really amplified the story's feeling and depth. Then as the end of the story was coming closer and closer the story line moved so fast that it almost seemed that the deatils were slim to none in the book. The appeal of the book really began to lessen and then before I knew it the story was over. I wish that it had continued in the fashion of having such great detail and ended with a slightly bigger twist. I did like the new idea of the two lovers meeting and being friends for a long time before they actually fell in love and became husband and wife. That added a lot more reality to the fairy tale even though I know that there is to be little. Over all I did enjouy the story and I would recomentd it to others and I think that I will read it to my future children and students. I just wish that everyoe was not in such a hurry to be done with everything these days.
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Summary: I enjoyed it, but I was also disappointed.
Review: Ella Enchanted was one of the books that I read at the University this semester in my Children's Literature class. I enjoyed the book when I started reading it because it makes you think about what life would be like if you were under and obedience spell, but what disappointed me was the ending. It seems like the beginning of the book was full of details and that Gail Carson Levine needed a quick ending to this 232 page book. I think it ended somewhat like Cinderella. As I look back on the book, I see some similarities; Olga, her step-mother, Olive and Hattie, her step-sisters (Hattie is the one who knows about the spell and uses it to her advantage), dancing at the ball with Char (the Prince), and ending up happily ever after with him.
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Summary: Enchanting Ella is Great!
Review: I am a college student taking a course on Children's Literature, and when I was introduced to Gail Carson Levine's book, Ella Enchanted, I wasn't sure that I was going to enjoy it. Being a lover of the Walt Disney Cinderella story this was a bit of a change. The language at the start of the book was a little difficult to follow, but once I caught on I knew I was going to have a new favorite book. Levine makes you really feel sorry for the character Ella, who was born with this curse to obey orders. When her wicked stepsisters' catch onto this they go wild asking Ella to do this and that. They even take away possessions of Ella's like her money and mother's necklace. As Levine makes you like one character she makes you hate others. And of course in all fairy tales that have a happy ending there is a happy love story too. I also think that the age level of this book, 8 and up, is appropriate. Levine also does a wonderful job at making the reader get involved in the characters. At the end of the book when Char was dancing with other girls at the ball, it kind of made me mad. You want him to pick Ella so badly that you hurt for her too. It was a great example of making you feel for the characters you are reading about. I was so wrapped up in this book, and can't wait to read it over and over again!
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Summary: Loved It!
Review: Ella Enchanted is a great book. It is based on Cinderella withsome cool new twists. I thought it was so good, I read it twice!
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Summary: Extraordinary Ella Enchanted
Review: In the extraordinary book Ella Enchanted, it showed me what it is like to be blindly obedient. To start with, Ella was cast under a spell by a fairy who thought her spells were gifts. She had to obey any orders given to her. If she was ordered to cut off her own head she would have to do it. It was a spell that couldn1t be broken. One example would be when her step-sister told Ella to give her a necklace. Although it was very special she handed it over without question. Also when the orges kidnapped Ella she had a chance of escaping, but they told her not to run away. It seemed as though all was lost, but she had managed a plan. As soon as she got out she met with Char, the prince of Frell, and was safely escorted to the wedding where her father was. I don1t want to give away much more, but she finally met Lucinda who then and there cast yet another spell on her to be happy about her so called 3gift.2 When she was finally safe at her home she was treated with disrespect and was told not to marry the Prince when he proposed. Now I surely not going to tell you about the end, but it turned out really good, in my opinion, so I hope you get a chance to read this wonderful book Ella Enchanted. Enjoy your reading!
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Summary: Much better than the original
Review: Ella Enchanted is a great relief from the originalCinderella.While the Grimms Brothers' version might have been fittingfor the time, Ella Enchanted is tailored for the modern day child. Long gone are the days of the damsel in distress, waiting to be rescued. Ella, the main character, has been "blessed" with a gift from a foolish fairy. The "gift" is Obedience. Ella must obey whatever she is told or suffer grave consequences. She does not take this fate lying down, however. She does everything in her power to resist. The other characters, including the father, are much more believeable in Ella Enchanted than in any other Cinderella story available. Even the Prince is a "real" person, not just a man who prances around on a horse all day long. This book is a must read for any modern day school child.
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