Stepsister is set in the Cinderella fairy tale, but a very different imagining of it. Prince Ciar has become king and has a bastard brother that he and no one else trusts. Ella is now queen. She was allowed to take vengeance against her stepfamily, killing the stepmother and one sister but letting the other (in this telling Jacinda) live. Five years have gone by and things are a bit more sour.
Mostly this is a royal house tension story now. Lots of people walking very thin lines. Good if you like that sort of thing, and a good attempt at adding depth to the characters, but it's far enough removed from the original that to me it doesn't feel like the same space.
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