If you liked Ever After: A Cinderella Story, then read Cinder by Marissa Meyer

There is just this weird appeal to retellings, maybe it is the comfort of knowing what is going to happen, the possibility of re-exploring a world we think we know, the pleasure of spending more time with characters we like or the idea of seeing the story we loved through someone else's eyes.

A good retelling goes beyond a guilty pleasure, especially if we get to enjoy strong heroines, breaking the cycle of the "damsel in distress" they might need help but they will not wait for their beloved prince to come to the rescue and if need be they will get their hands dirty.

That is the thing that I love about both "Ever After" and "Cinder" our heroines are strong, they might find themselves in situations slightly or completely different then the Grimm brothers stories or the Disney version but they will fight but they will also try to make smart decisions based on the information they know and even if who they are doesn't fit the society's mold they will not change how they are just to please others.

Title: Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Director: Andy Tennants

Stars: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, and Patrick Godfrey.

Release Date: July 29, 1998

Before her father died both Daniel and him where happy, they missed Daniel's mother but they had one another.

One day Daniel's father Auguste decides that the best thing he can do for his daughter is to give her a mother to give his dearest tomboy in the right direction.

Sadly after Auguste's death Daniel is demoted into a servant working all day and falling asleep by the chimney while she tries to read the books her father left behind, even if that means waking up covered in cinders.

A faithful encounter with prince Henry start a series of events turn Daniel's life upside down and into a future she would have never dared to imagine.

Title: Cinder

Series: The Lunar Chronicles #1

Author: Marissa Meyer

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends (Macmillan)

Release Date: January 3, 2012

In New Beijing leaves a girl named Cinder, a girl who turns out to be the city’s best mechanic. Even if she is the best she is nothing more than a second class citizen a fact her stepmother never lets her forget, she will never let her forget that she isn’t 100% a girl nor the fact that she owns her.

Cinder’s world starts to shift the day that Prince Kai asks her to fix her robot and her dearest stepsister gets sick with the plague that has reached pandemic levels and no cure is known.

One thing leads to another and Cinder ends up in the middle of an intergalactic struggle between Earth and the lunar Queen Levana, Cinder will have to have faith and do what she can to save those that never spared her a second glance.

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