Cinder & Ella
By: Kelly Oram
I am pretty sure everyone would agree with me that I am an idiot. Upon seeing the title I honestly thought it meant Cinder and Ella. It took me close to half an hour to realise it actually means CinderElla!
It happened when I was once again caught surfing the net for new ebooks for my Kindle. When I came across the book, I had a deja vu. It has been a really long time (7 years) since I stopped reading simple, contemporary, romance novel. I had always been reading books in series. I shall not tell you the titles of those books, but you could probably guess them. I mean who can't. A healthy teenager (am I still a teenager?) have yet to touch those books before?!
Anyways, I digressed. As for those titles... I shall reveal it next time.
Back to Cinder & Ella! I thought I needed some fluff in my life after so long so I got myself the book and started reading it. As of now I am at page 52 on my Kindle. I can't say I fell in love with it or I hate it. I am enjoying though. In fact, the reason I deleted all my posts and started blogging again was because of the book.
The main girl in the book had a blog on critics on books and movies. I thought that I should try it too. I want this blog to be my memory "capsule" - to keep all the memories of what I read and watched. Not for the public to read or anything. But for me to look at... that is if I can keep the capsule updated at all time. If I wanted for public attention I would have sought out louder network, and not a blog no one knows about. I like it this way... Peace. Only me and my memories.
On my voyage through the CinderElla sea, I felt different range of emotions. There are tear-jerking moments, where my heart goes for the main girl Ella (Ellamara). There are times I felt annoyed at Ella. There are occasions I went back to my fifteen years old self and was like "YAY!", "OMG!", *squeal*. All in all, it's just deja vu. I love the feeling of deja vu. Therefore, I definitely enjoyed the book up till now!
Here's the synopsis:
It’s been almost a year since eighteen-year-old Ella Rodriguez was in a car accident that left her crippled, scarred, and without a mother. After a very difficult recovery, she’s been uprooted across the country and forced into the custody of a father that abandoned her when she was a young child. If Ella wants to escape her father’s home and her awful new stepfamily, she must convince her doctors that she’s capable, both physically and emotionally, of living on her own. The problem is, she’s not ready yet. The only way she can think of to start healing is by reconnecting with the one person left in the world who’s ever meant anything to her—her anonymous Internet best friend, Cinder.
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Hollywood sensation Brian Oliver has a reputation for being trouble. There’s major buzz around his performance in his upcoming film The Druid Prince, but his management team says he won’t make the transition from teen heartthrob to serious A-list actor unless he can prove he’s left his wild days behind and become a mature adult. In order to douse the flames on Brian’s bad-boy reputation, his management stages a fake engagement for him to his co-star Kaylee. Brian isn’t thrilled with the arrangement—or his fake fiancée—but decides he’ll suffer through it if it means he’ll get an Oscar nomination. Then a surprise email from an old Internet friend changes everything.
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I am pretty sure some of you will be cringing at the words "hollywood sensation", "anonymous Internet best friends", "teen heartthrob", etc., but let me remind you, this is why I mentioned "deja vu".
Although this book may seem to have (or may have) cliche story plot (hey the title practically spells Cinderella ignoring the "&"), I enjoyed the writing.
52 pages into...
Ellamara lost her mother in car accident and unfortunately, she was left scarred physically and mentally after the accident. After waking up from a coma, she found herself trying to cope with life in a new place (from Boston to California). In order to try and escape from living with her father - a man who tries too hard to understand her daughter but failed miserably, stepmother - who (as of 52 pages) is not an evil stepmother, and step sisters - Anastasia, the insensible one and Juliette, she sought out the only person left on Earth who truly understands her, Cinder (real name Brian).
Brain, a Hollywood heartthrob, has the looks, the skills but not the attitude wanted in the industry. He wanted acknowledgement for his acting but all the reporters and tabloids seem to care about is his abs and well... if he is willing to date a fan. Making matter worse is his bad-boy reputation. He does not do relationship is what he told himself after eight months of losing contact from the one person he is actually wanted to start one. In order to salvage his reputation and let the public to see him in a whole new light, his reluctantly accepts a fake engagement with Kaylee (his co-star of the new blockbuster movie - The Druid Prince). His heart aches from the lost of the only person he is willing to start a relationship with, until 5 seconds ago when he received an email from her, on the very first "date" with his "fiancee". She is alive.
Until next time...
