Cold Hearted-Villains, Book 8
Readers rate it 4.1 (16 on Hardcover)
219 pages · Released Jul 6, 2021 · Disney Electronic Content
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This reimagining of Cinderella's stepmother explores her backstory through themes of grief, loss, and moral compromise. While the narrative attempts to humanize a villain, it contains emotional abuse, death, and dark thematic material that skews toward older teen readers. The book rewards complexity and nuance over clear-cut morality, which may challenge younger readers but offers meaningful exploration for older teens.
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This was supposed to be her happily ever after... It’s a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A doting father, frantic to bring a mother’s love back into his daughter’s life. And the selfish, cruel woman who insinuates herself into that family?a woman so unfeeling, so cold hearted, that wh... This was supposed to be her happily ever after... It’s a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A doting father, frantic to bring a mother’s love back into his daughter’s life. And the selfish, cruel woman who insinuates herself into that family?a woman so unfeeling, so cold hearted, that when her new husband dies, she makes the girl a servant in her own home. But who is that evil stepmother, that icy lady of the house? How did she become so closed off that, in the face of a child’s grief, she thought only to seek wealth and power for herself and her abhorrent daughters? Before that fateful ball, before the glass slipper and the prince, there was another story?a story of love and grief, of hope and of dreams dashed. It is the story of Lady Tremaine. Even the coldest of villains are sometimes wives and mothers, women who loved and lost and hoped for something grander for their lives . . . once upon a dream. The latest novel in Serena Valentino’s deliciously devious Villains series introduces the most famed and hated wicked stepmother of them all?but turns everything you know about her on its head.
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- Young Adult Fiction
- Character driven
- Weak Character Development
- Unloveable Characters
- Fantasy
- Young Adult
- Disney characters
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ISBN 9781368074476 · Disney Electronic Content