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Summary: What's All the Fuss About?
Review: The premise of "Ella Enchanted", as you can read from the jacket or any of the other reviews here, goes like this: a young girl named Ella gets an unfortunate gift from a nice but incompetent fairy named Lucinda. Ella is magically forced to follow any command that anyone gives her. We then follow poor Ella as her mother dies, she gets sent off to finishing school, runs away, has a series of misadventures, returns home, gets sent off again, and finally marries the Prince and lives happily ever after.Now in my mind, this book is a missed opportunity. Thinking about the idea behind this book, you could probably come up with plenty of good jokes that could be made with it. "Ella Enchanted" does have a few funny moments, such as when a parrot keeps interrupting Ella's attempts to bake a cake, but on the whole it's not enough. Much of the book is spent watching Ella get tormented by evil stepsister Hattie. And while it's all done competently and Ella's revenge at the end is perfectly satisfactory, I found the book as a whole to be less uplifting than it might be. So in short, "Ella Enchanted" is readable, but not destined to become a children's classic by any measure.
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Summary: Sharp and sweet
Review: In this retelling of the Cinderella story, a girl named Ella works to remove a curse of obedience placed on her since birth. The story contains remarkable characters of every shape and kind. Speaking as one who's a fan of any book with a strong female at the story's helm, I couldn't help but be impressed that Levine made certain that her heroine, Ella, never become defined solely by her curse. All in all this novella is well written, if a bit too reliant on stereotypes. One such example involves the girls that eventually become Ella's step-sisters. You know that they are evil because they are fat and stupid. I had little difficulty disliking them when they were cruel, but at the same time it was hard not to object to the constant references to their eating. Apparently such gluttony is a sign of pure wickedness. Sorry, but aren't there ways to display evil in slightly more malicious ways? All in all I liked the story's moral and Ella's unique method of breaking the curse. Now with a potentially popular movie on the way, expect to be hearing a lot more about this little story as girls everywhere discover it.
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Summary: How can you break a spell that controls you?
Review: Ella enchanted is a grabbing book. Ella is under a spell she got when she was born, she has to do whatever she is told to do. Her best frenid finds out and orders her around and when she is done ella slaps her and her best freind moves away. Ella lives and her mom dies because ella had to eat the hair in her soup but her mom did not. Her mom dies and she has to go to finshing school. She can tame ogers and her and the princ(char)fall in love. Can she brake her spell, will she marry the princ. You will never know until you read the book. Dont miss out, Dont wast anymore time and start reading it.
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Summary: Ella Enchanted
Review: If you're looking for a good book to read that includes humor, adventure,and love, then look no further. Ella Enchanted is your book.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: Ella Enchanted is one of the best books i ever read. It is funny, charming,action packed and very romantic. This book touches my heart again and again. I have read it too many times to count and love it more and more. Ella is brave,intelligent and witty. Ella Enchanted is filled with elves, orges, evil step sisters and the experiance of falling in love. This story will charm any one who reads it.
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Summary: I don't see how you can help but love it!
Review: People say that it isn't exactly like cinderella, but who cares! the difference is what makes it interesting. Its a great story for those who love fairyland and love stories. It is also great for any age, its short and meant for younger readers but it's still great. I couldn't put it down! but if you can't make the stretch to believe in fairies or you think love makes a heroin weak, this isn't the book for you. But for everyone else, read it!
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Summary: an intelligent revision of the Cinderella tale
Review: When Ella was a baby, a foolish fairy bestowed upon her the blessing/curse of obedience -- whatever anyone tells her to do, she must do. This leads to uncomfortable and even dangerous situations as the adventurous young girl meets hungry ogres and nasty stepsisters! But good things happen to Ella, too. She loves her mother, has a trusted elder who watches after her, she has a talent for languages, and she has befriended the prince. My one problem is that the first part of the story is heavily populated with elves, fairies, giants and even a pet centaur, but these elements are unceremoniously dropped, not to be mentioned again. In all other respects, however, this is a wonderful update of the classic fairy tale, with elements from that story adapted with ingenuity and humor. Well done!
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Summary: It's good-
Review: It's a very entertaining, lighter, occasionally funny read, but I also agree with the review titled, "Why are you all raving about this book?" I can ask the same question, because:
1)At the beginning and middle of this book, there was hardly a resemblence to Cinderella, the story it was based off. Once you get to the last four or so chapters, almost everything is the same, so for people who dislike the story of Cinderella, they might want to consider skipping this book.
2)At the start of the story, (after all the history of how Ella received her curse), Ella seemed like an intelligent girl with human emotion/human thoughts that readers could relate to. Once she realized she was in love, she started to lose some of those thoughts and act lovesick and (possibly) even ditzy.
3)Some situations in this book were hard to follow and had almost no point in being in the story.
My final recommendations for this book is to do "research" on the plot and characters before buying.
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Summary: Ela Enchaned: a wonderful fanasy book loaded with comady.
Review: How would you like to HAVE to do somthing when someone tells you to? Well thats what happened to Ella, and it was all because of this stupid fairy that never did anything right. How would you like to never break it? She was stuck with it for much longer than she would have wished. It was a curse. How would you like to not be aloud to tell it to anybody? 'Cause she coulden't. If I tell you anymore I'll tell you the ending so Ibetter stop. That's all!!!!!!
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Summary: Ella Enchanted Review by Alex Floro
Review: This was one of Gail's best books. It had the type of fairy tale content that you do not get anymore. The fairy tale authors now just write about things that sometimes just doesn't make sense. Those "new writers" just feed of the Brothers Grim, and other of the fairy tale pioneers. Gail, even though she is in the present day, has the quality of the fairy tale writers of yesterday.
Gale beautifully writes a Cinderella for the modern readers. The book mixes romance and comedy. You usually can not get these two qualities in the same book because the heaviness of romance usually wieghs down the lightness of comedy. This book has the perfect balance of YING AND YANG. Overall, I think that schools should require this book as the ones that students should read because it is THAT GOOD. And, what school you know requires a fatansy for a required read?
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