Awful cover ... Surprisingly good content.

Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted epitomizes the inutility of judging books by their covers. It actually may have had a perfectly normal fantasy fiction cover at some point in its distant past, but then someone made a movie, and, of course, the new edition of the book has to have a movie tie in cover that's just abysmal. Sigh.

Cinderella is the tale that gets retold in this book. Unusual in a genre full of versions of Beauty and the Beast. Levine brings some new quirks and angles to the old story, and turns it into a truly fun romp.