With the uniqueness of the plots that would be an amazing story to read.Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. How about a courageous female who even if she doesn’t know her own worth at least has more drive and a backbone. Also please dear god please no more self righteous martyrs.

That being said I hope for her next books there’s less sexual crudeness for the sake of shock value and sexually cried sake, and better thought out ways to advance the plot. She tries to tell a new fresh take on an old classic. I continue to read and listen to this author because I really do appreciate how she thinks outside the box. I’m guessing that there might be another book after this one, but if not there’s a lot of points in the plot that were just left unfinished after 3 books. Instead a lot of times she would help out and even give tips and heads up to her evil step family on how to do better with their crimes…which left me scratching my head literally saying out loud BUT WHY?!?!? What’s wrong with her?!? Something that I noticed about this author is that while her ideas for retelling fairytales are unique and extremely interesting concepts she loves to make the female lead a martyr…to the point to where it can be extremely frustrating at points and just makes the female lead seem more stupid than noble. For someone so eager to break free of her bad situation the FL is not exactly what you could call proactive.

As for the female lead she entered the TSTL nonsensical female lead territory more than I could stand. Which while I realize is an unpleasant reality of life, once again it felt like it was used carelessly in the plot for shock value and lazy writing purposes. This book also dealt a lot with the FL not only being mentally abused but physically abused and the constant threat of rape. I read this fully knowing that the author likes to add more graphic mature elements to her stories, but this last book seemed like it had a lot of crude sexually graphic details that were were extremely unnecessary to the plot and just for cheap shock values. I downloaded this after listening to the authors Beauty and the Beast retelling.

Devastation by M.J. Haag