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		<title>A Not-So-Grimm Fairy Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. D. Youngren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bettie Sharpe&#8217;s Ember is a wry twist on the Cinderella story, one that turns upside down some of the most basic elements of the much-loved fairy tale.&#160; Most of these twists are inventive and enjoyable, but some aspects of this telling—which is decidedly not for children—don&#8217;t work as well as they might. The fun part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinderella, Not.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be a short review, because my fellow editors have said pretty much all there needs to be said about Ember. Ember is brilliant. It&#8217;s a well written, wonderfully imagined, quirky retelling of the classic Cinderella story. It&#8217;s also fairly short, which means it&#8217;s perfect for an afternoon read. And I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinderella Punches You In the Gut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E.Traylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the violent, anti-romance twist of this retelling. It was not as violent and dark as I expected from the description, but quite compellingly realistic. I love the contrasts to the Disney-fied version of Cinderella. The step-family is truly family, and beauty is not blonde and demure and dainty. I particularly enjoyed the author&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Skilled Postmodern Cinderella</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.C.A. Hogarth</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While postmodern takes on fairy tales aren&#8217;t usually my thing, I was impressed by the clean prose, dry wit and well-realized characters in this retelling of Cinderella. Several days after reading it, I was struck by how revealing it is of contemporary culture: our fixations on irony and anger, our need to remake everything or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a fairy tale as it should be</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A. M. Harte</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ember is a twisted, dark-edged story; a fairy tale as it should be, with all the gory bits left in. I raced through the story, read it all in one sitting. It’s short and engaging, and written in a conversational first-person that draws the reader right in. And—let’s be honest—any story that opens with the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Silver1</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I give a five full stars. I read it all the way through. I tasted every word. I enjoyed every second of the author&#8217;s writing, and then I went back and read it again. Yes, I not only read it all the way through, I read it again. And I bookmarked it. And I&#8217;m gonna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wonderful Re-invention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Nitschke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me say it as simply as I can:&#160; I loved Ember. I loved that instead of the Disnified empty cardboard characters, the author has filled them out so that they are people&#8212;people that readers can identify with, people that readers can love. I loved that instead of a poorly treated girl waiting for Prince [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fairy tale with a human element</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zoewhitten</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ember is probably one of the best fairy tale remakes I&#8217;ve seen so far. It offers a human side to characters who were previously only flat stereotypes, and it cleverly plays these stereotypes as the rumors and gossip of other people. The story of the Cinder Girl is just as brilliant as the true relationships [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quantumelody</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ember is a very interesting and worthwhile read. Ms. Sharpe&#8217;s intimate scenes are not burdened with awkward language and clichéd phrases. The imagery in this story is rich and powerful, and she knows how to write fantastic descriptions of events. I found the first-person narrative engaging, and my sympathy for the main character was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wicked Main Character</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorrel McCrae</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fairytales were never my kind of story, which is probably why I grinned when I read the premise for Ember. Cinderella wicked? Looks like Disney better go do a remake for one of their classics. Bettie Sharpe has a brilliant story on her hands about a witch absolutely entranced by Prince Charming, though she does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cinderella With Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.A. Hunter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ember is a retelling of the Cinderella fairytale with Cinderella, renamed Ember, as a witch and with Prince Charming living under a curse that makes everyone adore him. Every aspect of the classic story has been twisted and reinvented. Ember is the exact opposite of the Disney-fied Cinderella that we have all come to imagine. [...]]]></description>
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