Depending on your taste in books, this is a great read. I personally love fairy tale retellings, no matter what form they appear in. Turgeon weaves the fairy tale of Cinderella with a modern-day story, placed in New York, featuring Cinderella's fallen fairy godmother as the first person narrator.
As the story progresses, Lillian, the godmother, finds it increasingly difficult to separate present day reality from her memories as a fairy godmother, and the ways in which she failed Cinderella.
I won't spoil the story for those of you that might read it; all I will say is that the novel begins with the certainty that it is a fairy tale retelling, and continues that way, but leaves the reader wondering if the fairy tale is the reality in the novel, or if it is living true to its name.
Now, it's on to Breathers, my first foray into romantic zombie comedy, fondly abbreviated as rom zom com.
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