Kingdom of Cinders, Deborah Grace White
Kingdom of Cinders, Deborah Grace White
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Kingdom of Cinders
A Retelling of Cinderella

Author: Deborah Grace White

Narrator: Rachael Beresford

Unabridged: 14 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/07/2022


Synopsis

Born into a kingdom where power is outlawed, Penny has little reason to love her magic. She barely remembers her mother, and even her father dies unaware of her abilities. Now, magic or not, Penny is powerless to escape the bitter tangle of competition her stepmother has created between her and her stepsisters. And a series of chance encounters with the crown prince only adds to her troubles. The last thing she needs is to attract the notice of the very royals who have turned her existence into a crime.

Prince Rian has never been sure about his parents' ban on magic, but he has no choice but to embrace it. The weight of a kingdom is on his shoulders, after all. With the departure of his younger brother to a neighboring kingdom, he's never had more pressure and less support. His parents are ready to choose Bansford's future queen, and the last thing he can afford is to get distracted by a servant girl . . . no matter how intriguing she might be.

But the king and queen aren't wrong to be afraid—the darkest kind of magic is coming for Bansford. It's time for Penny to decide where her loyalties truly lie, and Rian . . . he will have to decide just how much he's willing to sacrifice for the kingdom he's sworn to serve.

About Deborah Grace White

Deborah Grace White is an author of YA fantasy and fairy tale retellings who was more or less born reading. She grew up on a wide range of books, from classic literature to light-hearted romps. Her love of fantasy was inevitable from the time her father read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to her and her siblings when she was four years old.

The love of reading has traveled with her unchanged across multiple continents, and carried her from her own childhood all the way to having children of her own.

But if reading is like looking through a window into a magical and beautiful world, beginning to write her own stories was like discovering that she could open that window and climb right out into fantasyland.

Now she gets to live that childhood dream from her hometown of Adelaide, Australia, where she lives with her husband and their three little ones.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tricia

Bentleigh's brother Rian gets to steal the show in this book. I loved this Cinderella retelling! The family dynamics of Cinderella's family wasn't as black-and-white as some retellings, and the stepsisters were really sympathetic even as they had their own learning to do. Penny is a lovely Cinderell......more

Goodreads review by Chantel

What a fun and emotionally tugging Cinderella retelling While I thought Ben and Azeala had firmly captured first place in my heart when it comes to this series, I find that I am happily forced to make room for this beautiful tale of Cinderella retold in such a charming and unexpectedly touching way.......more