Ella Enchanted

One of the first fantasy books I ever read was, I think, Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine.

I only read it because I had seen the movie previously and randomly realized in a bookstore that it was a book as well. Sadly, the first time I picked the book up, it was sooo different from the movie that I didn't even make it to the second chapter before I slammed the book shut and went off in search of something better to read.

Fortunately, curiosity got the better of me some time later. I forget if it was weeks or months or what, but eventually I did pick the book up again and read it all the way through.

I figured out then and there that the thing about the books always being better than the movies was true.

I still liked the movie, maybe because I had seen it first, or maybe because the plotlines were so different that they really couldn't be compared very easily. But I definitely loved the book best.

Because of my love for that first book I read, I looked for more books that Levine had written. The Two Princesses of Bamarre is my favorite book by her, but I stopped reading Ever after the first two or so chapter and I have no intention of picking it back up.

I've already posted about Levine's Princess Tales. Maybe it's time to write about some of her other, longer stories.