It’s a sweet, comical book, composed for a more youthful group of onlookers yet effortlessly delighted in by a more seasoned one as well. In light of the Cinderella story, there are a couple of outstanding contrasts, in particular that Ella was "honored" with the "blessing" of dutifulness by the pixie Lucinda, who thinks every one of her endowments, (for example, transforming you into a squirrel) are magnificent.
After a family catastrophe, the beforehand protected Ella is constrained out into the world where she goes on a mission to discover the pixie who reviled her and request help from her weight. 66% of the route through, the book turns into the retelling of the fantastic Cinderella story. At first I was apprehensive that the colossal start of the book would be demolished by this peculiar turn, however it really worked out truly well.
The lesson of the story is fitting, yet not addressing. Levine has a much lighter hand than your normal Disney film, and there’s not a saccharine minute. It helps me a bit to remember the film Ever After, so in the event that you preferred that then you’ll like this book, and the other way around.
A delight to peruse, and exceptionally elegantly composed, Ella Enchanted took up a couple of hours of my time yet will take up a much bigger cut of my memory: for making me snicker toward the end of a debilitating week, for being sweet yet not cloying, astute but rather not sermonizing, and for rejuvenating an old tall tale.