Ella Enchanted is a fantastic book about a girl with a bizarre blessing- at birth she was blessed by a fairy to always be obedient. And it worked- Ella obeys EVERYONE when she is given a direct order. It makes life rather hard for her, and even more so when her mother dies and her absentee father comes home. He has plans to make them wealthy, involving marrying a mean ugly woman with, you guessed it, two horrible step-daughters. Ella is sent to a finishing school with the two of them, and when the uglier and slightly smarter of the two discover her secret, she has no choice but to run away. Ella decides to both escape her tormentors and find her arrogant and misguided fairy godmother in hopes that she will lift her curse.
This book was an absolute favorite of mine, and I was very excited when I heard it was being made into a movie. My hopes were a bit dashed upon viewing, however, as smart, clever Ella was transformed into a political activist for Ogre rights (a group of whom try to eat her in the book) and ends up singing an anthem by Queen when she finds her fairy godmother. On the whole I was a bit miffed they'd changed the storyline, but still enjoyed the movie. I also loved Fairest, which had the same setting as Ella Enchanted.
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