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I grabbed the opportunity when this book was free for two days on Amazon, as I had heard good things about this book. And I would say, I wasn’t disappointed 🙂 I totally enjoyed this book. It was a quick read which I finished it hardly in 3 sittings.

Laure is the main character who is living on streets and basically surviving by stealing from others. Her plan is to leave Eclatant but she needed money. She made a solid plan but unfortunately, it failed and she met Luc. The news in the city was that the prince had fallen in love with a girl who came to his ball a day before and left a glass shoe. Laure and Luc together go on an embarking journey for getting a duplicate glass shoe, so that Laure can claim that she is the one who left that shoe. Will they get success in their plan? What difficulties will they face in their journey? Who is the girl who left that glass slipper in the first place? To know the answer to these questions, you need to read the book 🙂

What I Liked
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1) Happily is a fresh take on the classic Cinderella story. I guess everyone knows that story, still reading this book felt as if the whole story was from a new perspective. It is safe to say that it has Cinderella but the story is not all so-Cinderella 🙂
2) The world building was fantastic. There is a rich town with King and Prince. Then there is a poor town destroyed by the war. There are bandits, adventures, and interesting characters. And oh, in this, the Prince is really nice.
3) I loved how the main characters were so contrasting, though both were almost in a similar situation. Laure was a badass, bitter and a little cynical, while Luc was sophisticated, honest and helpful. Reading the arguments between the two was really interesting.
4) Though the story was predictable in many places, I really liked the little twists that were thrown in between. Those little twists were sometimes humorous and I really was grinning at those scenes.
5) It had a lot of adventures like I said before. That made the story action-packed. The fight scenes were done really good.
6) It was a quick and breezy read. The language was easy to grasp making it a fast read.
7) It had the perfect ending that a story could have. In a Cinderella kind of way.

What I didn’t like
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1) I felt that the end was little rushed. I mean I liked the ending, but I wish that there were a little bit more details about the final scene.
2) Though I loved that the language of the book was modern, sometimes they were too modern. In a story like this, the language should be little closer to medieval style.

Final thoughts
Happily is definitely a feel-good Cinderella retelling. I would definitely recommend it to everyone who is looking for a quick and fun read. You would be surprised by the world-building and the imagination. This book has important messages about friendship and moral responsibilities and is full of humor and adventure.

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