In the spirit of hanging out with my nieces, I read Mafiella, by RosaLinda Diaz and decorated my toes in “Little Girls” by Nailfordable.
I think the pedicure turned out pretty well, although it’s not my favorite.
Mafiella was pretty good! Mafiella is about a girl named Stella who is pretty obviously a modern parallel to Cinderella, except she has a family whose history is shrouded in mystery. During much of the book she is searching for answers to the mystery. She finds a letter from her late grandfather, and learns that he enrolled her in a finishing school when she was born. Eager to get away from her wicked stepmother, Stella goes to the school.
There she is given a code name: Pepper. Pepper learns that the school is for daughters of mafia families and that her grandfather was involved with the mafia. And the school is not your average finishing school, but a school that trains girls for the mafia, under the guise of producing good mafia wives.
This is similar to the premise of the Ares Academy series by Arianna Fraser and the Kingmaker series by Sophie Lark, except it’s a YA version. I really liked the headmistress and thought she kicks butt. I also found the girls that attended the school with Pepperstella to be very convincing. I did find Pepperstella could get a little annoying (and I would have been seriously hacked off at her if I was her friend and she volunteered me for a school project without asking me), and I didn’t always find the romance to be credible. But overall, it was a good story with a lot of fun aspects, and I give it a solid four stars.
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