
Finding Cinderella: A Novella
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781476783284 |
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Publisher: | Atria Books |
Publication date: | 03/18/2014 |
Series: | Hopeless Series |
Pages: | 176 |
Sales rank: | 149,754 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d) |
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Finding Cinderella: A Novella
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I found a wonderful and enchanting story with this book. it is only 92 pages on my tablet
and I was surprised at how
it drew me in.
I would recommend this book to anyone who want a great short read.I hope the author gives me more of her books
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Colleen Hoover Is GENIUS! I loved this Novella!!!. I wish it would have been a whole book. So thankful that Colleen took to time to give this gift to us. LOVE these characters! Impatiently awaiting the arrival of her next book. READ THIS!
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I could have read many many many more pages about Six and Daniel. Great book! What a treat. Thank you Colleen for this. They have a beautiful story and feel blessed you shared it with us. I see them so happy and living there life together. Love all your books. You are an amazing author!!! Keep writing so we can all keep reading.
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This book I just so cute. I highly recommend it.
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WOW! I had not read any of Colleen Hoover's books before - but i certainly will be reading all of them in the very near future!!
Thank you Colleen!!
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There are not enough words to describe amazing... colleen hoover is a writing genius! Cant get enough of her stories, I always want more.
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Dear Colleen Hoover: you are amazing! I have not yet read one of your books that I did not love.
In Hopeless and Losing Hope, we get a few glimpses at Holden's best friend Daniel and Sky's best friend Six. While I honestly never gave much thought to Six, I loved Daniel and his sense of humor. So I was really looking forward to their story. Finding Cinderella is a novella about the journey of Daniel and Six from an anonymous school closet encounter to friendship and love. When they officially meet one year after their rendezvous, they don't understand how they can feel such an intense connection so quickly. They are so good together and I loved their back and forth banter. Daniel is absolutely hilarious, as is his family that we meet. When they finally figure out who the other is, there are some heartbreaking moments and painful truths revealed. I wanted nothing more for them to work it out and get the happily ever after they deserve.
This is another gem from Colleen Hoover. Fans of her Hopeless series will absolutely love it. And a big huge thanks to her for making it FREE! So go grab it and enjoy.
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I have mixed feelings about the current "novella" trend in fiction. Shorter works featuring secondary
characters from a successful full-length novel or covering a discrete span of time before/after the action
of the original can make sense from both a creative and a marketing standpoint. Problem is the novella
is a specific prose form that isn't always easy to carry off. Longer than a short story, shorter than a novel,
it requires careful plotting to get the pacing right. Stuff too much into it and the reader will likely feel
rushed and disoriented. Provide too little content and they wonder what the point of the exercise was
other than to make a few more bucks for the writer.
With FINDING CINDERELLA author Colleen Hoover gives us a glass slipper that fits.
The story focuses on one specific story line--the coming together of Six and Daniel, secondary
characters from Hoover's popular HOPELESS and LOSING HOPE. Setting aside the
would-it-really-happen factor, Daniel has an intimate encounter with a classmate in a school
maintenance closet. It isn't a truly anonymous situation, there's an emotional connection beforehand,
but circumstances don't allow Daniel to explore it. The girl tells him she's leaving the school.
Fast-forward about a year, Daniel meets Six. She's the best friend of his best friend's girl. Six spent the
previous school year in Italy. Hoover lets us know that it wasn't a good year for Six. This early
foreshadowing is the main reason the piece works as a novella. Without it the big reveal at the end
would be pure melodrama. Instead, we watch Daniel and Six come together knowing full well that
she's Cinderella and never expecting the final twist that will threaten their relationship, a complication
that works because it is based in that initial encounter. This is tight plotting.
Does Daniel resonate as a character for me? No. He's jaded and man-whorish. Bad enough qualities
in a grownup. Unconvincing in a young person from a basically decent family--no history of parental
abuse or addiction or any other trauma to account for it. Speaking of parents, I also don't buy the
progressive parenting that riddles this particular neighborhood. It struck me as too author-engineered.
Yet, I did like FINDING CINDERELLA and plan to check out the full-length novels Hoover drew from.
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This one is hard for me to review, because I really, really don't like giving a book a bad review. So I am going to start out with what I liked about this book.
The story itself was a good story. There were some great friendships in this book as well. Daniels family is absolutely hilarious, and embarrassing. I loved it. Six is a very insecure girl who has a lot to deal with. Her struggle was interesting to learn about.
I am sorry to say that is about it. The book starts out with an encounter in a dark closet between two strangers, who end up having sex. Really? I think this is labeled as a YA, but my Ipod showed children/teen. Well, if that is the case there is no way on gods green earth I would allow my child or teen to read this book. There is way to much talk about sex and the language was not my cup of tea.
Although the story was a good story, I could have done without all the language and talk about teenage sex.
***Having said these things - I honestly appreciate the Author's craft for writing. I appreciate all the had work and time put into her book, so that people like me can read them. I may not have liked the content and that is a big determining factor for me in books, her writing is beautiful.***
Source: I bought this book for myself off iTunes. I am not affiliated with iTunes in any way. I was not compensated in any way for this review. These are my own PERSONAL thoughts on the book.
Content: Lots of language and lots of talk about sex, and actual sex.
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Amazing short story!!! Hope to read so much more about Daniel and Six!
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This book was so adorable and romantic. I loved it...but i would not suggest this book for kids under the age of 14. :) ;)
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This may have been a great - 5 star - read except for the swearing. All the swearing made it dull.
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For horny teens- I agonized through the first chapter then ditched it; a waste of time
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Two slightly strange teenagers and a story that seems to be disjointed. Not terrible, but not particularly good.
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I love reading romances. In most books they dont take the time for you to really make you fall in love with the characters love, you end up just likeling them. But this book made you not just like the main charaters but made you fall in love right beside the main characters. In this book you couldnt help but laugh, smile, and stare at the screen/page in shook. It also made your heart break and your hear mend. This book may not be the longest but definitely worth the time! Cant wait to read another one.
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Short and sweet, this is a love-at-first-sight type story wrtten from a high school boy's perspective. I enjoyed the playful banter of the main charachters' dialogs. I would like to read more of these quirky, likeable kids' lives. Were we ever that young and that in love?
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Just wow. I fell in love with daniel and six. I only hope colleen continues their story as well as sky and holder at college. This made me laugh and cry. I couldnt put it down. I just wish there was more...please colleen MORE
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Another awesome Colleen Hoover Book. Finding Cinderella novella is a must read, and I would recommend reading Losing Hope and Hopeless first, also awesome books. I've read all of Colleen Hoovers books and she makes you fall in love with all the characters as she artfully develops each character's personality fully. I've never been able to put any Hoover book down once I start reading it and Finding Cinderella was no exception! Just Awesome, please write more about Daniel and Six, they we so funny and there just has to be so much more to say about them and their lives with Sky and Holder :)
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Oh my goodness. This book was good. Maybe it was becuase I was reading this at 1:00 in the morning or I have a bad taste in books, either way I think this book waa pretty awesome,
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A beautiful story about finding love through a chance encounter
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I wish here was more!
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“It only feels perfect because we’re pretending it’s perfect.” (237)
After one year, the boy was all about searching for the girl he had a passionate interlude in the closet. Right off the bat, the concept became interesting.
“In reality, people are who they are and they’ll never really change. So why the hell are Val and I even wasting our time on this exhausting relationship if we don’t even really like each other? (266)
The character dialogue was reminiscent of Holden Caulfield—very entertaining. I loved the brutal honesty of the protagonist, Daniel. It was funny sometimes.
I agreed with Daniel about the purse. Girls who don’t carry purses don’t carry make-up and perfume. That’s what made Six so beautiful and perfect for him. I liked that Six was as straight-forward as Daniel. Those two were so compatible in a lot of ways. But was Six “Cinderella”? I wondered.
There was a good twist near the end. At times, it got a little too sappy with all the romantic love, but it was an enjoyable story nonetheless. I was especially impressed by how the author was able to accurately depict the thoughts of the teenage male brain.
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The After series by Anna Todd which if you liked this book read the after series!!!!!!! Ok so this is a spoiler so watch out. This story is about a guy named Daniel who met a girl in a maintenance closet and pretended to fall in love with her so it could make her feel better so he called her Cinderella. Then she left and a year later she comes back and becomes friends with Daniel's friends and her name is Six and he soon figures out she is his Cinderella. -Launah Cunningham
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Loved this unique story, told in the male POV. For a novella, emotions and drama runs very high. The story only focuses on the main events, which left me wanting to know more about our MCs. What motivated these high school kids to hate everyone, to be so jaded? Why was the female's family never around or mentioned?
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