Next Book Review: RELEASE DAY: Stealing Cinderella by A. Zavarelli

Title: Stealing Cinderella

Series: Sinister Fairy Tales Collection

Author: A. Zavarelli

Genre: Dark Fairy Tale Retelling

Release Date: April 2, 2020

Every royal has their dirty little secret. His was… me.

It should have been simple.

Go to the ball, meet the prince, and secure his patronage for my favorite charity.

But beneath the mask, the brooding beast of a man was not at all who I expected.

He was dark and intense and eerily quiet.

When I left, I could still feel the ghost of his touch branded into my skin.

He haunted my dreams, but I never expected to see him again.

Then he came for me.

And he took me.

And I learned that his darkness was a void I never could have conceived.

He’s the crown prince of Norway.

And, now, I’m his captive.

Well, A. Zavarelli gives us a modern, dark twist on Cinderella's fairytale. Cinderella is the epitome of a classic fairytale... it's the rags to riches story we all know and dream for. Ella and Thor were soooo electric! Their chemistry and pull was seductive. I'm not going to lay out the way Zavarelli creates the story but it is definitely a darker tale than the singing cartoon version. I know that version isn't the original and there were some darker elements in the original. I wonder if this one follows a bit closer to the original. I guess I'll never know unless I break down and read those original stories and I am getting so curious the more I read the Sinister Fairytale collection.

Anyway, Thor was just fascinating. I could not get enough of his character. Perhaps because we get to know so little about the prince but in Stealing Cinderella, I felt like I got to know Thor better than the movie. He's definitely harsher and somewhat cruel and hard. But Ella does things to this prince that opens him up... his mind, his heart. It takes Ella and Thor time and some erotic scenes, that I felt made them see each other as more. There wasn't any possible way these two were walking away from each other unchanged... the only question is would it be for better or for worse?! I enjoyed the deep depravity that walked the line of too much while still bring beauty and acceptance to the table.

I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.