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Kissing the Witch by Emma Donahue
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donahue is a collection of 13 interlocking fairy tales starting with Cinderella. In order to explain what's groundbreaking about the story, I have to give away a big spoiler so you can skip ahead a little bit if you don't want to know anything. This version of the fairy godmother is good, like the original tale. At first, she follows all the traditional rules. The fairy godmother sends her to three balls, which is more customary for early Cinderella's what happens. And after the last one, the prince is proposing to the protagonist and she's like, what am I doing? She doesn't want to be with the prince.