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For two years, Cinderella has searched for her lost daughter who had been kidnapped by Emperor Napoleon. With magic and at her wit's end, she searches for her long lost enemy, the Silver Fox, in a desperate attempt to convince him to help her find her daughter.
Allied with Jeremiah, the witch hunter, Cinderella stops at nothing to find her daughter and to defeat Napoleon. With time running out as only Russia remains strong against the Emperor's army, Cinderella will sacrifice all she knows to find her daughter, but will she lose herself or be found?
Allied with Jeremiah, the witch hunter, Cinderella stops at nothing to find her daughter and to defeat Napoleon. With time running out as only Russia remains strong against the Emperor's army, Cinderella will sacrifice all she knows to find her daughter, but will she lose herself or be found?
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First published March 11, 2014
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Ron Vitale
37 books51 followersRon Vitale is a fantasy and science fiction author. He has a Master’s degree in English Literature from Villanova University where he studied the works of Alice Walker and Margaret Atwood, interpreting their novels with a psychological Jungian approach by showing how the central female protagonists in their novels use storytelling as a means to heal themselves from trauma. He lives in a small town outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 2008, he published his fantasy novel Dorothea’s Song as an audiobook on Podiobooks and for sale in the Amazon.com Kindle store, and in 2011 he published Lost, the first book in the Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries series, in 2012 the second book in the series, Stolen, was published and in 2014 the third book in the series, Found was released.
Ron has since published Awakenings and Betrayals, books 1 and 2, of the Witch’s Coven Novel series, Faith, the first book in the Jovian Gate Chronicles and Ahab's Daughter, book 1 in the Werewhale Saga. He keeps himself busy by writing his blog, and on learning how to be a good father to his kids all while working on his next book.
In the fall of 2008, he published his fantasy novel Dorothea’s Song as an audiobook on Podiobooks and for sale in the Amazon.com Kindle store, and in 2011 he published Lost, the first book in the Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries series, in 2012 the second book in the series, Stolen, was published and in 2014 the third book in the series, Found was released.
Ron has since published Awakenings and Betrayals, books 1 and 2, of the Witch’s Coven Novel series, Faith, the first book in the Jovian Gate Chronicles and Ahab's Daughter, book 1 in the Werewhale Saga. He keeps himself busy by writing his blog, and on learning how to be a good father to his kids all while working on his next book.
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April 10, 2021
Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries has irritated me from the first book. It started off with a good premise – that after a few years of marriage Cinderella’s Prince Charming was found to be sneaking around with other women. This was a believable development and promised an interesting attempt to improve the situation. Didn’t happen. In that book, I was most disappointed when Cinderella decided to get revenge by having an affair with a man she met while visiting the French Empress, Josephine. It really lowered my opinion of her.
Then, in the second book, Stolen, when it was revealed that Napoleon was a warlock out to get Cinderella for her witch powers, I was really upset. I know Napoleon was considered to be the Antichrist in his own time, but I have difficulty figuring out how he had the time to travel (even through the Dreamline) while still running his many battles and supposedly governing France.
In the third book of the series, Found, Napoleon has kidnapped Cinderella’s daughter, Phoebe, and is holding her hostage so that Cinderella will just give him her powers. This also doesn’t happen. But now, at least, Napoleon is starting to pay a little more attention to his proper business. We catch up to him as he sets out to invade Russia.
The books as a whole, and individually are sort of disjointed and don’t flow well from beginning to end. In addition to Napoleon, characters from fiction and fairy tales as diverse as Queen Mab and Baba Yaga are brought in to drag what there is of a plot along. They even mysteriously travel to some tropical island experiencing an imminent volcanic eruption for no obvious reason.
It’s not all bad. There are some well-written scenes and some likable characters. They just don’t add up to a very coherent story. My favorite character is Charley, an unfortunate farmer from the American midwest who got caught in the crossfire when Napoleon was tearing up the place searching for Cinderella and has been inadvertently dragged into this weird magical landscape helping Jeremy, the witch hunter, search for her.
It occurred to me just the other day that I might be considerably less annoyed with this series if it had not been supposed to be about Cinderella. Some completely unrelated girl with a philandering prince of a husband and a lover who dropped her like a hot potato when he found out she was pregnant could have done everything in this story without destroying the fairy tale. Even Napoleon’s involvement would have been less obnoxious in that case.
Then, in the second book, Stolen, when it was revealed that Napoleon was a warlock out to get Cinderella for her witch powers, I was really upset. I know Napoleon was considered to be the Antichrist in his own time, but I have difficulty figuring out how he had the time to travel (even through the Dreamline) while still running his many battles and supposedly governing France.
In the third book of the series, Found, Napoleon has kidnapped Cinderella’s daughter, Phoebe, and is holding her hostage so that Cinderella will just give him her powers. This also doesn’t happen. But now, at least, Napoleon is starting to pay a little more attention to his proper business. We catch up to him as he sets out to invade Russia.
The books as a whole, and individually are sort of disjointed and don’t flow well from beginning to end. In addition to Napoleon, characters from fiction and fairy tales as diverse as Queen Mab and Baba Yaga are brought in to drag what there is of a plot along. They even mysteriously travel to some tropical island experiencing an imminent volcanic eruption for no obvious reason.
It’s not all bad. There are some well-written scenes and some likable characters. They just don’t add up to a very coherent story. My favorite character is Charley, an unfortunate farmer from the American midwest who got caught in the crossfire when Napoleon was tearing up the place searching for Cinderella and has been inadvertently dragged into this weird magical landscape helping Jeremy, the witch hunter, search for her.
It occurred to me just the other day that I might be considerably less annoyed with this series if it had not been supposed to be about Cinderella. Some completely unrelated girl with a philandering prince of a husband and a lover who dropped her like a hot potato when he found out she was pregnant could have done everything in this story without destroying the fairy tale. Even Napoleon’s involvement would have been less obnoxious in that case.
May 15, 2018
Really clever, ties things together well!
This is the third in the series of the Cinderella stories. I absolutely have loved the first 2. I'm totally obsessed with this author and his writing. This book ties up a lot of loose ends, but it leaves some open as well... I really, really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to the next to see what else comes together and if anything else is left open. I'm not ready for the series to end, cuz I love these characters. It's a fantastic story of what happens AFTER the fairy tale ends, AND what if it's not quite all it was cracked up to be? 100% recommended, no doubts or hesitations!
This is the third in the series of the Cinderella stories. I absolutely have loved the first 2. I'm totally obsessed with this author and his writing. This book ties up a lot of loose ends, but it leaves some open as well... I really, really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to the next to see what else comes together and if anything else is left open. I'm not ready for the series to end, cuz I love these characters. It's a fantastic story of what happens AFTER the fairy tale ends, AND what if it's not quite all it was cracked up to be? 100% recommended, no doubts or hesitations!
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