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* HeroesPreferRedheads: Downplayed, as Sophia's first romantic relationship was with a brown-haired girl. But even Sophia herself notes how quickly she feels drawn to the red-haired Constance.
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200 years after Cinderella found her prince, girls of age in the kingdom of Mersailles look forward to be sent to the royal ball, where they have a chance to be chosen as brides - or be cast off from society.\\
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200 years after Cinderella found her prince, girls of age in the kingdom of Mersailles look forward to be being sent to the royal ball, where they have a chance to be chosen as brides - or be cast off from society.\\
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Sophia Grimmins doesn't want to be chosen and she doesn't want to go the ball. She's already in love with her childhood friend Erin. When things go deeply awry at the night of the ball, Sophia escapes the palace and sets out to make her own destiny. One where she alone gets to choose who she'll spend her life with.
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Sophia Grimmins doesn't want to be chosen chosen, and she doesn't want to go to the ball. She's already in love with her childhood friend Erin. When things go deeply awry at the night of the ball, Sophia escapes the palace and sets out to make her own destiny. One where she alone gets to choose decide who she'll spend her life with.
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** Sophia sees living out her life like Lille's society expects her to as this, since the last thing she wants is being a plaything for a husband she could never love and being forever separated from her actual love Erin.
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** Sophia sees living out her life like Lille's society expects her to as this, since the last thing she wants is being a plaything for a husband she could never love and being forever separated from her actual love love, Erin.
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** [[spoiler: After the love potion Cinderella was given stopped working, she became disgusted by the prince and started to defy him. He retaliated by slowly sucking out her life force and keeping her prisoner in the palace until she died completely drained and alone.]]
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** [[spoiler: After the love potion Cinderella was given stopped working, she became disgusted by the prince and started to defy him. He retaliated by slowly sucking out her life force and keeping her prisoner in the palace until she died died, completely drained and alone.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Cinderella's step-family were very straight-forward bad guys in the original fairytale and were intensely jealous of her for managing to gain the attention of the prince. In this book, they were Cinderella's co-conspirators against the tyrannical monarch and a very loving family to her. Their villain-status in the Cinderella-tale is revealed to be the doing of the royal family's revisionism.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Prince Charming in the original fairytale was pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: A gallant prince who genuinely loved Cinderella and helped her escape her step-family's abuse. [[spoiler: While in this book he is little more than a PsychopathicManchild who viewed Cinderella as his property and killed her in the most cruel, drawn-out way possible when she wouldn't give in to him. He then proceeded to do the same to thousands of innocent women for over a century to stay alive and rule eternally over Mersailles.]]
* AllAbusersAreMale: Every instance of abuse we see in the book is perpetuated by a man against a woman. Female abusers are never shown or even mentioned, with the exception of the occasional FemaleMisogynist.
* AllMenArePerverts: The men of Mersailles are almost universally depicted as perverted scumbags fully buying into the misogyny the system propagates or just not doing anything against it out of complacency and who feel entitled to every woman who strikes their fancy. The only male character to completely avert this is Luke, who is gay.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Prince Charming in the original fairytale was pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: A gallant prince who genuinely loved Cinderella and helped her escape her step-family's abuse. [[spoiler: While in this book he is little more than a PsychopathicManchild who viewed Cinderella as his property and killed her in the most cruel, drawn-out way possible when she wouldn't give in to him. He then proceeded to do the same to thousands of innocent women for over a century to stay alive and rule eternally over Mersailles.]]
* AllAbusersAreMale: Every instance of abuse we see in the book is perpetuated by a man against a woman. Female abusers are never shown or even mentioned, with the exception of the occasional FemaleMisogynist.
* AllMenArePerverts: The men of Mersailles are almost universally depicted as perverted scumbags fully buying into the misogyny the system propagates or just not doing anything against it out of complacency and who feel entitled to every woman who strikes their fancy. The only male character to completely avert this is Luke, who is gay.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Cinderella's step-family were very straight-forward bad guys in the original fairytale fairy tale and were intensely jealous of her for managing to gain the attention of the prince. In this book, they were Cinderella's co-conspirators against the tyrannical monarch and a very loving family to her. Their villain-status in the Cinderella-tale is revealed to be the doing of the royal family's revisionism.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Prince Charming in the originalfairytale fairy tale was pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: A gallant prince who genuinely loved Cinderella and helped her escape her step-family's abuse. [[spoiler: While in this book book, he is little more than a PsychopathicManchild who viewed Cinderella as his property and killed her in the most cruel, drawn-out way possible when she wouldn't give in to him. He then proceeded to do the same to thousands of innocent women for over a century to stay alive and rule eternally over Mersailles.]]
* AllAbusersAreMale: Every instance of abuse we see in the book is perpetuated by a man against a woman. Female abusers are never shown or even mentioned,with the exception of except for the occasional FemaleMisogynist.
* AllMenArePerverts: The men of Mersailles are almost universally depicted as perverted scumbags fully buying into the misogyny the system propagates or just not doing anything against it out ofcomplacency complacency, and who feel entitled to every woman who strikes their fancy. The only male character to completely avert this is Luke, who is gay.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Prince Charming in the original
* AllAbusersAreMale: Every instance of abuse we see in the book is perpetuated by a man against a woman. Female abusers are never shown or even mentioned,
* AllMenArePerverts: The men of Mersailles are almost universally depicted as perverted scumbags fully buying into the misogyny the system propagates or just not doing anything against it out of
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* DontGoIntoTheWoods: The White Woods are teeming with hostile wild-life and are very easy to get lost in. For this reason they're not as heavily guarded as Mersailles' other borders, as the king expects people to be kept away by their reputation alone.
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* DontGoIntoTheWoods: The White Woods are teeming with hostile wild-life and are very easy to get lost in. For this reason reason, they're not as heavily guarded as Mersailles' other borders, as the king expects people to be kept away by their reputation alone.
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* FemaleMisogynist: As a result of Mersailles' rampant anti-woman philosophy, a lot of young women and girls grow up internalizing harmful beliefs about themselves, leading to them competing with, shaming and degrading each other for mens' affection.
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward RagsToRiches fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella was lured to the palace and fell in love with the prince due to having been given a magic potion by the prince's mother without her knowledge. She originally wanted to come to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing due to the aforementioned betrayal and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward RagsToRiches fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella was lured to the palace and fell in love with the prince due to having been given a magic potion by the prince's mother without her knowledge. She originally wanted to come to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing due to the aforementioned betrayal and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
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* FemaleMisogynist: As a result of Mersailles' rampant anti-woman philosophy, a lot of young women and girls grow up internalizing harmful beliefs about themselves, leading to them competing with, shaming and degrading each other for mens' men's affection.
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward RagsToRiches fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evilstep-family, in step-family. In this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed whitewashed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella was lured to the palace and fell in love with the prince due to having been given a magic potion by the prince's mother without her knowledge. She originally wanted to come to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing due to the aforementioned betrayal and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward RagsToRiches fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil
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* MagicFeather: A more tragic example. It is considered an embarrassment for a girl not to be chosen on her first ball, so a lot of worried parents buy their daughters all sorts of trinkets, potions and artifacts in order to enhance their looks or attract an actual fairy godmother like Cinderella had to bolster their chances for the ball. Sophia's friend Liv even buys a plastic magic wand. It's all but stated that none of these trinkets actually do anything and that the people who sell them are scammers.
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* MagicFeather: A more tragic example. It is considered an embarrassment for a girl not to be chosen on her first ball, so a lot of worried parents buy their daughters all sorts of trinkets, potions potions, and artifacts in order to enhance their looks or attract an actual fairy godmother like Cinderella had to bolster their chances for the ball. Sophia's friend Liv even buys a plastic magic wand. It's all but stated that none of these trinkets actually do anything and that the people who sell them are scammers.
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* NoWomansLand: The women of Mersailles are seen as the men's property and nothing else. A woman's body, finances and even life belong to her husband. It's so bad that soldiers can casually talk about killing their old wives to get new younger ones right in the open.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her looks and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her. [[spoiler: He was like that even in his original identity as Cinderella's PrinceCharming, feeling entitled to her love and using a spell to get her to adore him. When the potion wore off and he realized she would never love him of her own volition, he slowly drained her as a way of punishing her and created the royal ball as a general way of getting back at every woman who even slightly reminded him of her.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her looks and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her. [[spoiler: He was like that even in his original identity as Cinderella's PrinceCharming, feeling entitled to her love and using a spell to get her to adore him. When the potion wore off and he realized she would never love him of her own volition, he slowly drained her as a way of punishing her and created the royal ball as a general way of getting back at every woman who even slightly reminded him of her.]]
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* NoWomansLand: The women of Mersailles are seen as the men's property and nothing else. A woman's body, finances finances, and even life belong to her husband. It's so bad that soldiers can casually talk about killing their old wives to get new younger ones right in the open.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very firstappearance appearance, he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her looks looks, and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her. [[spoiler: He was like that even in his original identity as Cinderella's PrinceCharming, feeling entitled to her love and using a spell to get her to adore him. When the potion wore off off, and he realized she would never love him of her own volition, he slowly drained her as a way of punishing her and her. He created the royal ball as a general way of getting back at every woman who even slightly reminded him of her.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first
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** Sophia's and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men choose them at the royal ball.
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** Sophia's and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for to whichever men choose man selects them at the royal ball.
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* TitleDrop: Constance says the tile in chapter 12 when her and Sophia meet for the first time in Cinderella's tomb.
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* TitleDrop: Constance says the tile title in chapter 12 when her and Sophia meet for the first time in Cinderella's tomb.
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* FemaleMisogynist: As a result of Mersailles' rampant anti-woman philosophy, a lot of young women and girls grow up internalizing harmful beliefs about themselves, leading to them competing with, shaming and degrading each other for mens' affection.
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* AllAbusersAreMale: Every instance of abuse we see in the book is perpetuated by a man against a woman. Female abusers are never shown or even mentioned, with the exception of the occasional FemaleMisogynist.
* AllMenArePerverts: The men of Mersailles are almost universally depicted as perverted scumbags fully buying into the misogyny the system propagates or just not doing anything against it out of complacency and who feel entitled to every woman who strikes their fancy. The only male character to completely avert this is Luke, who is gay.
* AllMenArePerverts: The men of Mersailles are almost universally depicted as perverted scumbags fully buying into the misogyny the system propagates or just not doing anything against it out of complacency and who feel entitled to every woman who strikes their fancy. The only male character to completely avert this is Luke, who is gay.
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** Sophia sees living out her live like Lille's society expects her too as this, since the last thing she wants is being a plaything for a husband she could never love and being forever separated from her actual love Erin.
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** Sophia sees living out her live life like Lille's society expects her too to as this, since the last thing she wants is being a plaything for a husband she could never love and being forever separated from her actual love Erin.
* MagicFeather: A more tragic example. It is considered an embarrassment for a girl not to be chosen on her first ball, so a lot of worried parents buy their daughters all sorts of trinkets, potions and artifacts in order to enhance their looks or attract an actual fairy godmother like Cinderella had to bolster their chances for the ball. Sophia's friend Liv even buys a plastic magic wand. It's all but stated that none of these trinkets actually do anything and that the people who sell them are scammers.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her appearance and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her. [[spoiler: He was like that even in his original identity as Cinderella's PrinceCharming, feeling entitled to her love and using a spell to get her to adore him. When the potion wore off and he realized she would never love him of her own volition, he slowly drained her as a way of punishing her and created the royal ball as a general way of getting back at every woman who even slightly reminded him of her.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her appearance looks and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her. [[spoiler: He was like that even in his original identity as Cinderella's PrinceCharming, feeling entitled to her love and using a spell to get her to adore him. When the potion wore off and he realized she would never love him of her own volition, he slowly drained her as a way of punishing her and created the royal ball as a general way of getting back at every woman who even slightly reminded him of her.]]
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* SecondLove: After Sophia and Erin's relationships breaks apart due to Erin not being able to handle the societal pressure, Sophia finds a new love in charming rebel Constance.
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* SecondLove: After Sophia Sophia's and Erin's relationships relationship breaks apart due to Erin not being able to handle the societal pressure, Sophia finds a new love in charming rebel Constance.
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** Sophia and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men choose them at the royal ball.
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** Sophia Sophia's and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men choose them at the royal ball.
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* DontGoIntoTheWoods: The White Woods are teeming with hostile wild-life and are very easy to get lost in. For this reason they're not as heavily guarded as Mersailles' other borders, as the king expects people to be kept away by their reputation alone.
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* TheLostWoods: The White Woods are teeming with hostile wild-life and are very easy to get lost in. For this reason they're not as heavily guarded as Mersailles' other borders, as the king expects people to be kept away by their reputation alone.
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* NoWomansLand: The women of Lille are seen as the men's property and nothing else. A woman's body, finances and even life belong to her husband. It's so bad that soldiers can casually talk about killing their old wives to get new younger ones right in the open.
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* NoWomansLand: The women of Lille Mersailles are seen as the men's property and nothing else. A woman's body, finances and even life belong to her husband. It's so bad that soldiers can casually talk about killing their old wives to get new younger ones right in the open.
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* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward RagsToRiches fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella was lured to the palace and feel in love with the prince due to having been given a magic potion by the prince's mother without her knowledge. She originally wanted to come to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing due to the aforementioned betrayal and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
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* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward RagsToRiches fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella was lured to the palace and feel fell in love with the prince due to having been given a magic potion by the prince's mother without her knowledge. She originally wanted to come to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing due to the aforementioned betrayal and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
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* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella came to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
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* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward RagsToRiches fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella came was lured to the palace and feel in love with the prince due to having been given a magic potion by the prince's mother without her knowledge. She originally wanted to come to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing due to the aforementioned betrayal and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
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''Cinderella is Dead'' is a 2020 [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]], QueerRomance, DarkFantasy novel by Kaylynn Bayron.\\
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''Cinderella is Dead'' is a 2020 [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]], QueerRomance, DarkFantasy novel by Kaylynn Kalynn Bayron.\\
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* ActionGirl: Constance, who is a very experienced knife-fighter.
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* TransparentCloset: Luke once overheard a conversation between her and Sophia's mothers, in which Sophia's mother expressed worry of Sophia's obvious feelings for Erin. Sophia also reminisces at one point about her trying to invoke IHaveThisFriend in order to gauge Erin's reaction to her crush on her, but Erin immediately seeing right through it.
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* TransparentCloset: Luke once overheard a conversation between her his and Sophia's mothers, in which Sophia's mother expressed worry of Sophia's obvious feelings for Erin. Sophia also reminisces at one point about her trying to invoke IHaveThisFriend in order to gauge Erin's reaction to her crush on her, but Erin immediately seeing right through it.
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* TheLostLenore: Luke lost his boyfriend Louis when Louis' father found out they were in a relationship and turned Louis in to the authorities. Luke still grieves him and is furious when one of the boys in the village mocks Louis' death.
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* TheLostLenore: Luke lost his boyfriend Louis when Louis' father found out they were in a relationship classmates outed them and Louis' parents turned Louis in to the authorities. Luke still grieves him and is furious when one of the boys in the village mocks Louis' death.
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** Luke and his late boyfriend were in the same situation. It ended with Louis' father selling out his son as soon as he found out about him being gay.
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* TransparentCloset: Erin once overheard a conversation between her and Sophia's mothers, in which Sophia's mother expressed worry of Sophia's obvious feelings for Erin. Sophia also reminisces at one point about her trying to invoke IHaveThisFriend in order to gauge Erin's reaction to her crush on her, but Erin immediately seeing right through it.
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* TitleDrop: Constance says the tile in chapter 12 when her and Sophia meet for the first time in Cinderella's tomb.
* TransparentCloset:Erin Luke once overheard a conversation between her and Sophia's mothers, in which Sophia's mother expressed worry of Sophia's obvious feelings for Erin. Sophia also reminisces at one point about her trying to invoke IHaveThisFriend in order to gauge Erin's reaction to her crush on her, but Erin immediately seeing right through it.
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* AFateWorseThanDeath:
** Sophia sees living out her live like Lille's society expects her too as this, since the last thing she wants is being a plaything for a husband she could never love and being forever separated from her actual love Erin.
** Being deemed forfeit is considered this for the young girls who attend the royal ball. Many take drastic measures to avoid it, such as purchasing "spells" and "potions" to enhance their looks and chances of being picked.
** [[spoiler: After the love potion Cinderella was given stopped working, she became disgusted by the prince and started to defy him. He retaliated by slowly sucking out her life force and keeping her prisoner in the palace until she died completely drained and alone.]]
** Sophia sees living out her live like Lille's society expects her too as this, since the last thing she wants is being a plaything for a husband she could never love and being forever separated from her actual love Erin.
** Being deemed forfeit is considered this for the young girls who attend the royal ball. Many take drastic measures to avoid it, such as purchasing "spells" and "potions" to enhance their looks and chances of being picked.
** [[spoiler: After the love potion Cinderella was given stopped working, she became disgusted by the prince and started to defy him. He retaliated by slowly sucking out her life force and keeping her prisoner in the palace until she died completely drained and alone.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Prince Charming in the original fairytale was pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: A gallant prince who genuinely loved Cinderella and helped her escape her step-family's abuse. [[spoiler: While in this book he is little more than a PsychopathicManchild who viewed Cinderella as his property and killed her in the most cruel, drawn-out way possible when she wouldn't give in to him. He then proceeded to do the same to thousands of innocent women for over a century to stay alive and rule eternally over Mersailles.]]
* TheLostWoods: The White Woods are teeming with hostile wild-life and are very easy to get lost in. For this reason they're not as heavily guarded as Mersailles' other borders, as the king expects people to be kept away by their reputation alone.
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** Sophia and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men chooses them at the royal ball.
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* TransparentCloset: Erin once overheard a conversation between her and Sophia's mothers, in which Sophia's mother expressed worry of Sophia's obvious feelings for Erin. Sophia also reminisces at one point about her trying to invoke IHaveThisFriend in order to gauge Erin's reaction to her crush on her, but Erin immediately seeing right through it.
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* NoGooDeedGoesUnpunished: The seamstress helps Sophia get away after she escapes from the royal ball. King Manford finds out about her involvement later on and has her publicly executed as a warning to any would-be rebels and dissenters.
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* NoGooDeedGoesUnpunished: MarriageOfConvenience: Luke offers this to Sophia. Due to both of them being homosexual, neither would have expectations of the marriage the other couldn't fulfill, allowing both parties at least a modicum of freedom.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The seamstress helps Sophia get away after she escapes from the royal ball. King Manford finds out about her involvement later on and has her publicly executed as a warning to any would-be rebels and dissenters.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The seamstress helps Sophia get away after she escapes from the royal ball. King Manford finds out about her involvement later on and has her publicly executed as a warning to any would-be rebels and dissenters.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her appearance and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her appearance and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her. [[spoiler: He was like that even in his original identity as Cinderella's PrinceCharming, feeling entitled to her love and using a spell to get her to adore him. When the potion wore off and he realized she would never love him of her own volition, he slowly drained her as a way of punishing her and created the royal ball as a general way of getting back at every woman who even slightly reminded him of her.]]
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* SweetPollyOliver: Constance and Sophia disguise themselves as boys by wearing male clothes and braiding and putting up their hair in order to traverse Mersailles unhindered.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Mersailles of France in its Baroque era.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Mersailles Mersailles, of France in its Baroque era.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Sophia resents the royal ball for all the obvious reasons, but also because she knows she isn't attracted to men and could never have a happy love life no matter who would choose her.
* TheLostLenore: Luke lost his boyfriend Louis when Louis' father found out they were in a relationship and turned Louis in to the authorities. Luke still grieves him and is furious when one of the boys in the village mocks Louis' death.
* NoGooDeedGoesUnpunished: The seamstress helps Sophia get away after she escapes from the royal ball. King Manford finds out about her involvement later on and has her publicly executed as a warning to any would-be rebels and dissenters.
* TheLostLenore: Luke lost his boyfriend Louis when Louis' father found out they were in a relationship and turned Louis in to the authorities. Luke still grieves him and is furious when one of the boys in the village mocks Louis' death.
* NoGooDeedGoesUnpunished: The seamstress helps Sophia get away after she escapes from the royal ball. King Manford finds out about her involvement later on and has her publicly executed as a warning to any would-be rebels and dissenters.
* RuleOfThree: Girls get to visit the royal ball three times. If they're still not chosen by their third ball, they're considered "forfeit" and get cast out.
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* StarcrossedLovers: Sophia and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men chooses them at the royal ball.
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** Sophia and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men chooses them at the royalball.ball.
** Luke and his late boyfriend were in the same situation. It ended with Louis' father selling out his son as soon as he found out about him being gay.
** Sophia and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men chooses them at the royal
** Luke and his late boyfriend were in the same situation. It ended with Louis' father selling out his son as soon as he found out about him being gay.
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''Cinderella is Dead'' is a 2020 [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]], QueerRomance, Dark Fantasy novel by Kaylynn Bayron.\\
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The kingdom of Lille in its entirety is a very patriarchal and heavily misogynistic society, where women have no rights whatsoever and are seen as little more than servants to the men in their lives.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The kingdom of Lille in its entirety Mersailles is a very patriarchal and heavily misogynistic society, where women have no rights whatsoever and are seen as little more than servants to the men in their lives.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Mersailles of France in its Baroque era.
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* HeroesPreferRedheads: Downplayed, as Sophia's first romantic relationship was with a brown-haired girl. But even Sophia herself notes how quickly she feels drawn to the red-haired Constance.
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* SecondLove: After Sophia and Erin's relationships breaks apart due to Erin not being able to handle the societal pressure, Sophia finds a new love in charming rebel Constance.
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200 years after Cinderella found her prince, girls of age in the kingdom of Lille look forward to be sent to the royal ball, where they have a chance to be chosen as brides - or be cast off from society.\\
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200 years after Cinderella found her prince, girls of age in the kingdom of Lille Mersailles look forward to be sent to the royal ball, where they have a chance to be chosen as brides - or be cast off from society.\\
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Sophia Grimmins doesn't want to be chosen and she doesn't want to go the ball. She's already in live with her childhood friend Erin. When things go deeply awry at the night of the ball, Sophia escapes the castle and sets out to make her own destiny. One where she alone gets to choose who she'll spend her life with.
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Sophia Grimmins doesn't want to be chosen and she doesn't want to go the ball. She's already in live love with her childhood friend Erin. When things go deeply awry at the night of the ball, Sophia escapes the castle palace and sets out to make her own destiny. One where she alone gets to choose who she'll spend her life with.
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* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella came to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The kingdom of Lille in its entirety is a very patriarchal and heavily misogynistic society, where women have no rights whatsoever and are seen as little more than servants to the men in their lives.
* DomesticAbuser: Sadly a common occurrence in Lille. Due to the system's inherent sexism, no one bats an eye at husbands who abuse their wives, as they're seen as little more than men's property. Right at the beginning of the book, Sophia walks in on a seamstress being beaten by her husband when he suspects she's been keeping her earnings from him.
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella came to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing and spending her life as his prisoner.]]]]
* NoWomansLand: The women of Lille are seen as the men's property and nothing else. A woman's body, finances and even life belong to her husband. It's so bad that soldiers can casually talk about killing their old wives to get new younger ones right in the open.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her appearance and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her.
* DomesticAbuser: Sadly a common occurrence in Lille. Due to the system's inherent sexism, no one bats an eye at husbands who abuse their wives, as they're seen as little more than men's property. Right at the beginning of the book, Sophia walks in on a seamstress being beaten by her husband when he suspects she's been keeping her earnings from him.
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story everyone knows is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella came to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing and spending her life as his prisoner.
* NoWomansLand: The women of Lille are seen as the men's property and nothing else. A woman's body, finances and even life belong to her husband. It's so bad that soldiers can casually talk about killing their old wives to get new younger ones right in the open.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: King Manford is a cruel, controlling monarch and a card-carrying misogynist. In his very first appearance he berates poor Liv in front of everyone at the ball for her appearance and then has her dragged out while the court laughs at her.
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''Cinderella is Dead'' is a 2020 [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]], QueerRomance, Dark Fantasy novel by Kaylynn Bayron.\\
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200 years after Cinderella found her prince, girls of age in the kingdom of Lille look forward to be sent to the royal ball, where they have a chance to be chosen as brides - or be cast off from society.\\
\\
Sophia Grimmins doesn't want to be chosen and she doesn't want to go the ball. She's already in live with her childhood friend Erin. When things go deeply awry at the night of the ball, Sophia escapes the castle and sets out to make her own destiny. One where she alone gets to choose who she'll spend her life with.
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!!This novel contains examples of:
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Cinderella's step-family were very straight-forward bad guys in the original fairytale and were intensely jealous of her for managing to gain the attention of the prince. In this book, they were Cinderella's co-conspirators against the tyrannical monarch and a very loving family to her. Their villain-status in the Cinderella-tale is revealed to be the doing of the royal family's revisionism.]]
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella came to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
* StarcrossedLovers: Sophia and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men chooses them at the royal ball.
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''Cinderella is Dead'' is a 2020 [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]], QueerRomance, Dark Fantasy novel by Kaylynn Bayron.\\
\\
200 years after Cinderella found her prince, girls of age in the kingdom of Lille look forward to be sent to the royal ball, where they have a chance to be chosen as brides - or be cast off from society.\\
\\
Sophia Grimmins doesn't want to be chosen and she doesn't want to go the ball. She's already in live with her childhood friend Erin. When things go deeply awry at the night of the ball, Sophia escapes the castle and sets out to make her own destiny. One where she alone gets to choose who she'll spend her life with.
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!!This novel contains examples of:
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Cinderella's step-family were very straight-forward bad guys in the original fairytale and were intensely jealous of her for managing to gain the attention of the prince. In this book, they were Cinderella's co-conspirators against the tyrannical monarch and a very loving family to her. Their villain-status in the Cinderella-tale is revealed to be the doing of the royal family's revisionism.]]
* {{Grimmification}}: While the original ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' was a very straight-forward fairytale in which a poor girl gets the life of her dreams by finding her PrinceCharming and fleeing her evil step-family, in this book the story is a heavily white-washed version of true events. [[spoiler: In actuality, Cinderella came to the ball with the goal of seducing and then killing the prince, who was a horrible tyrant, only to end up failing and spending her life as his prisoner.]]
* StarcrossedLovers: Sophia and Erin's relationship is forbidden under Lille's law, since both of them are supposed to be dutiful wives for whichever men chooses them at the royal ball.
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