However, this book is a happily ever after story in every sense of the word. It lacks conflict, it has a rushed ending, and all the characters suffer from love at first sight. I enjoyed reading Before Midnight even more than I expected. Soon Cendrillon and Raoul find themselves far from home, faced with a destiny that challenges their understanding of family and reveals to them who they truly are. When an invitation to a great ball at the capital reaches the family, Cendrillon’s new stepmother makes a decision that triggers more far-reaching effects that they expected. A very fine lady arrives with her two daughters - a lady who has married Cendrillon’s father. The girl, Cendrillon, and the boy, Raoul, become close friends as they grow up together at the Brabant seaside estate, but in their 16th year the quiet routine of their simple life is suddenly broken. He abandons her for king and court, but not before bringing a second child - a baby boy whose identity he does not reveal - to be raised alongside her. When Etienne de Brabant’s wife dies unexpectedly in childbirth, he finds himself alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name.
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