I guess I'm obsessed with fairy tales :D This story has some roots to older tales and I enjoyed guessing, comparing and evaluating. The main heroine begins her life as a Cinderella 
 I held up a discarded shaving glass I had found one morning on the trash heap at the bottom of the garden. I used it sometimes to search my face for any signs of beauty, but I had found none yet. 
 but with no prince as princes have no real importance to her (in fact a princess-in-hiding is more needed to her) and she gets her princess for sure. Then I think I found some similarities to The Little Mermaid as the princess-in-hiding seems so weird and magical in human world, more over she sacrificed all she had to an old witch-grandmother to grant her wish, to become (view spoiler)[a human (hide spoiler)] and sacrifices (view spoiler)[herself (hide spoiler)] but not for a prince (in fact she sacrifices (view spoiler)[a prince too ..... (hide spoiler)]) for the second strongest feeling after love - revenge. So far so good. And then reality stuck, and it was like 
 And I wasn't prepared for reality to strike, not so fast. I almost said: Hey, go back to your cave and don't attack good people! 
 Anyway it wasn't SOOOOOOO bad, but I felt like something is out of place and then, then the ending came. It left an intrigue and well, I wasn't prepared for the story to end either :D 
 What can I say, I'm not old enough for reality :D