Stepsister - Jennifer Donnelly

Jennifer Donnelly

Category: Fantasy

Narrator: Jayne Entwistle

Tags: Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult

Length: 12 hrs 54 mins, Isabelle should be blissfully happy shes about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isnt the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the princes heart. Shes the ugly stepsister whos cut off her toes to fit into Cinderellas shoe which is now filling with blood., When the prince discovers Isabelles deception, she is turned away in shame. Its no more than she deserves: she is a plain girl in a world that values beauty; a feisty girl in a world that wants her to be pliant., Isabelle has tried to fit in. To live up to her mothers expectations. To be like her stepsister. To be sweet. To be pretty. One by one, she has cut away pieces of herself in order to survive a world that doesnt appreciate a girl like her. And that has made her mean, jealous, and hollow., Until she gets a chance to alter her destiny and prove what ugly stepsisters have always known: it takes more than heartache to break a girl.