Hugh Bonneville is perfect as the uptight father, bumbling his cynical way through the absurd adventure with a straight face and spouting ridiculous statistics about health and safety («7 per cent of childhood accidents start with jumping»). (vodzilla.co)
Just when you think that every possible approach to fairy - tale retellings has been heavily trod, along comes Marissa Meyer, who boldly sends her retelling of Cinderella into a futuristic new realm.Meyer's Cinder is a cyborg, only 64 percent human, her other 36 percent reconstructed from robotic parts after a horrible childhood accident. (bookpage.com)
Finn Easton's life has been marred by two events: the freak childhood accident that killed his mother and caused his epileptic seizures and his father using him as the model for his cult sf novel. (booklistonline.com)