This book is a quick and a nice read. Although it was a quick read it was still touching. The writing was beautiful because it was very smoothly written, as if everything you read was crystal clear. Even though I wouldn't a different, a more happy ending to the book, I still enjoyed the book. On...
I always come away from Cameron Dokey's fairy tale retellings with mixed feelings. She knows how to put a creative spin on her stories, but some parts always fall flat. In this case, the ending just didn't do it for me. The romantic resolution wasn't what I what have preferred, but I could live w...
Im always looking for a good retelling of a Disney story; so when I found this one (a retelling),I immediately took a hold of it.I would say this is a pretty decent retelling of Mulan.It made me think beyond the actual character "Mulan" that we've all seem to think we know from the Disney movie. ...
Alright ladies & gentleman, i have officially finished reading this book! yay :) it was a pretty cute and unique book. Quite intriguing!GRADE : 3.5! and yes.. the 0.5 is necessary!Alright so here comes the review.. there will be SPOILERS..you've been warned!Wow so this book was so not how i had t...
Once Upon a Time’s The Storyteller’s Daughter(Cameron Dokey) Dec. 1-2, 2014A fairy tale that is new to my hearing. I was hesitant to read it because I’m not a big fan of fairy tales, but I really don’t know what I have eaten that made my mind open up this book. I guess I just want some new taste...
This review is also posted on my blog.(view spoiler)[I’m new enough at writing reviews that it’s still always relatively difficult to figure out where to start, but something about fairy tale retellings makes it seem even *harder*.I’m sure it’s the traditional fairy tale aspects. The magic out of...
Etienne de Brabant is brokenhearted. His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name. But before he abandons her for king and court, he brings a second child to be raised alongside her, a boy whose identity he does not reveal.The girl, La Cendrill...
Before Rapunzel's birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Rapunzel was born completely bald and without hope of ever growing hair, her horrified mother sent ...
The rabbits were put into their hutches, the chickens onto their nests, the dogs summoned from the courtyard. Being out in such a wind could do strange things to living beings, Old Mathilde called over its unnatural voice. The wind blowing backward can make you forget yourself. Once we were all s...
"What?" "There's a beautiful princess sleeping in the heart of the forest," Ironheart repeated obligingly. "I'm going to find her and wake her up." "With what? The kiss of true love?" Ironheart's green eyes grew enormous. "Wait a minute," he said. "How did you know?" I put my head down in my hand...
The ceremony was over, the courtiers dismissed. Last to say farewell to the new queen had been Nur al-Din Hasan, the vizier, her father. She would not see him again until the morning. If she had been successful, he would embrace her with joy when the sun arose, for she would live—if only for one ...
That will make no difference, I thought. The soldiers encircled us. I spun so that Steel and I stood back-to-back. Futile! I thought. All I had done was to make it possible to look my attackers in the face. I had no weapon to fight with. No way to defend myself. “Well, lads, what have we here?” a...
It was dimly lit, yet not entirely dark, because it seemed to me that I saw faces of companions I had known and loved, passing in and out of focus as I walked.I saw General Yuwen’s face most often. Next came an ancient, wrinkled face I did not recognize. And every once in a while, when the tunnel...
You should hope so. For heavens sake, just calm down. I do have a tendency to take the long way around, I admit it. But melodies and stories both can be like that. Besides, it’s not as if I don’t have my reasons for telling things the way I do. If you don’t know where you’ve already been, how can...