Ash & Bramble: A Captivating Young Adult Cinderella Retelling — Swords, Not Slippers

Ash & Bramble: A Captivating Young Adult Cinderella Retelling — Swords, Not Slippers

<p>The tale of Cinderella has been retold countless times. But what you know is not the true story. Sarah Prineas’s bold fairy-tale retelling is a dark and captivating world where swords are more fitting than slippers, young shoemakers are just as striking as princes, and a heroine is more than ready to rescue herself before the clock strikes midnight.</p><p>Pin has no recollection of who she is or how she got to the Godmother’s fortress. She only knows that she is a Seamstress, working day in and out to make ball gowns fit for fairy tales. But she longs to forsake her backbreaking servitude and dares to escape with the brave young Shoemaker.</p><p>Pin isn’t free for long before she’s captured again and forced to live the new life the Godmother chooses for her—a fairy-tale story, complete with a charming prince—instead of finding her own happily ever after.</p><p><em>When the glass slipper just doesn’t fit . . .</em></p><p></p>