Cinderella is Dead
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Cinderella is Dead” treats the fairy tale as the founding myth of a tyranny and sends two girls to pull it down. Kalynn Bayron sets her story two hundred years after the famous ball, in a kingdom where girls are paraded before suitors and the unchosen vanish; Sophia, who would rather marry her friend Erin, runs. Some readers praise the plot, the characters and a late revelation, and welcome its Black characters.
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About the book
Cinderella is Dead is a 2020 young adult book by Kalynn Bayron. The novel is focused on Sophia Grimmins, a queer teenager living in the same world as Cinderella, 200 years after her death. Young women that are coming of age are forced to attend balls to be chosen as wives of men they've never met.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 163 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 11 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 152 | 93% |
Frequently asked
What age is Cinderella is Dead for?
Cinderella is Dead sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 400 pages — shorter than 78% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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