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Dec 13, 2018RaptorMouse rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In the first installment of The 500 Kingdoms, Elena Klovis was set to be the Cinderella story of her Kingdom. She had the evil stepmothers and stepsisters, no father, and was treated as an unpaid servant. The only problem was, her prince was too young. After her “family” leaves to find richer husbands, Elena makes her escape thinking “by golly, if I’m going to cook and clean for someone, I am going to be paid for it!” As it turns out, the woman who hired her was a fairy godmother and she had an entirely different job in mind for her.... Fans of fairy tales will enjoy this story as Elena learns to work around the Tradition, the driving force that turns normal people into fairy tale happily (or not so happily) ever-afters. Readers will love some characters and love to hate others in this long yet easy to follow story.