Title: Cinder House

Author: Freya Marske

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BLURB

Ella is a haunting.

Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father’s house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.

Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.

Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.

You think you know Ella’s the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.

You’re halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.

Oh, this was beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time!

Ella is deceased but comes back as a ghost, bonded/trapped in the house where she grew up….along with her stepmother and her 2 daughters…who can see Ella and aren’t the nicest of people!

Like in the tale of Cinderella, the Prince invites all unmarried ladies to his ball as he needs to choose a bride……

As I said above, I loved this story, it was a fabulous take on the old tale.  There was dancing, a lovely weird type of throuple, yearning, fairies, magic, sorcerers, and bargains!

The ending made my heart sing!

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