A review by lazygal
Shattered Midnight by Dhonielle Clayton

3.0

Apparently this is the second book in a series, but it's not clear that readers starting here will have missed anything. It's not so much a fractured fairytale as a mashup of many parts from tales like Cinderella, Rapunzel and Frog Prince, all blended into a Jambalaya and shot through with references to the highly stratified colored community in New Orleans. For me, including likeable characters would have helped: Zora is so miserable and then determined to stand on her own, refusing help, while her cousins are not-quite-ugly stepsisters but definitely accepting of society at that time. Zora's magic is also an issue, and frankly, I just didn't care.

eARC provided by publisher via Edelweiss.