I don't know about you people but this book is just as great as its predecessor.Taken, the plot had undergone a huge change. We are not anymore treated by an innocent mountain girl with a humble hope for her village. In this book, Miri had evolved to be an independent courageous woman.I considere...
After a heist gets complicated and a giant beanstalk destroys half a city block Jack was run out of town. But now he's back and he's brought Rapunzel along with him. Something funny is going on in his former city though. There are ant people? And the giants are fighting them? It's up to Jack and ...
Very cute. The plot is a bit basic, but that's what you get with such a short book. Characters were more developed, and we get to see more story deviations that make the backgrounds so interesting (I had guessed about Cerise, and I liked that about the Candy Witch!). I bet the Evil Queen gets ...
This was the best book in the series. I wondered what happened to Selia after the first book, and I found my answer in Forest Born. Forest Born also tells you more about the different powers like how people speaking is the most corrupt, and as you read further, you can see how the girls grow more...
I really liked this book. To me, the handling of the political/economic issues in this book was unexpected of a YA book. In a lot of YA books things like poverty, tyranny, and revolution feel very one-note. They exist, but you either only see the side the main character is on – the opposing si...
Raven Queen's Story and Apple White's Story are exactly the same as the first two chapters of the Every After High novel that Shannon Hale published in October 2013. They are like the teaser book trailers to the book itself so it didn't really help that I read them after I was halfway through Eve...
Funny and heartwarming. I enjoyed the language as well as the actions of Madeline, I also liked the new location in which the Mad Hatter has been placed (a fun idea). This didn't give much away as to her particular character, just that she seems nice and a little 'mad', I would like to have learn...
This was offered for free from iBooks. It's a fun, very quick read (it probably took me ten minutes to read at the most), but it's enjoyable. It makes you want to see more from these characters, which is probably the point of them being offered for free. Intended for a pretty young audience, but ...
This was a 5 page little story to explain some about Ashlynn Ella. I have issues with the main theme of these stories. Let me explain. So there are several character's who will all be attending Ever After High. All of these characters are daughters, or sons of characters from well known fairy...
This was offered for free from iBooks. It's a fun, very quick read (it probably took me ten minutes to read at the most), but it's enjoyable. It makes you want to see more from these characters, which is probably the point of them being offered for free. Intended for a pretty young audience, but ...
Ashylnn Ella and Hunter Huntsman's stories are pretty much exactly the same and introduce the romance between the two. The overall feeling and content of the short books are similar to the promo videos for the Ever After High dolls that are on the website. They are short,contain just one idea, an...
The show is not that great. The book is actually really good, 4 1/2 stars if I could. It is kind of predictable, yeah, but it is really good. It's about the teenage kids of fairy tale characters, like Cerise Hood the daughter of red riding hood, and Ashlynn Ella the daughter of Cinderella. They a...
This is a short little story about Briar Beauty and what her life is like outside of Ever After High. This was one of the silly ones, her castle has zip lines all over and there are pillows everywhere incase her or her mother go to sleep. They both will randomly fall asleep and Briar has to some...
"At the grand Legacy Day ceremony that fall, Briar would sign the Storybook of Legends and magically bind herself to be the next Sleeping Beauty." The six free drabbles (of which this is the third) all focus on a character entering their second year at a fairy tale high school and taking over th...
Hunter is one of my main favorites after reading these short little stories that introduce the Ever After High characters. I feel really bad for these kids, they don't get to live out their own lives completely, they have to sign a contract (basically) saying that they will live out their parents...
Cute! It does drag in the middle, but it's worth it to push through. Ilove books like this because the shows are good ,too but i think that the writer is a person
I really enjoyed this book, and reading from the perspectives of other characters was interesting; however, I would have liked there to be more of a conclusion to the series. The end of the second book showed us that Apple and Raven were beginning to understand each others point of view, but then...
Originally reviewed on The Book SmugglersMiri is a young girl that has lived all her life on Mount Eskel, an unforgiving mountain that reaches far above the lowlands of Danlow. Here, Miri lives a quiet mundane life with her Pa and elder sister, Marda, tending to the family's goats and meager stor...
At this moment, I'm still debating whether I like this book better than The Goose Girl...I certainly love them both, but 5 minutes after finishing this book, I'm thinking that I might like this one a little bit more. The Goose Girl was mostly a fairytale retelling; this book is a continuation of ...
”Blow, blow, thou gentle wind I say…Until I have braided all my hair,And bound it up again.”- The Goose GirlSetting:The Kingdom of Bayern; no specific time period given.Cover Thoughts?:I like the old painting vice I’m getting from this, especiallt with the ceracks added to it. And while I do inde...
I shouldn't have been surprised that I loved this book - I've loved all of Shannon Hale's books, and the Bayern series (Goose Girl/Enna Burning/River Secrets) certainly doesn't disappoint. If I were to rate the Bayern books in order of my favorites, I'd go with #1: Goose Girl, #2: River Secrets, ...
I can't believe I just gave one star to a Shannon Hale book. Never thought that would happen.Review originally posted here.I really like Shannon Hale's books. And I love Jane Austen. It has taken me this long to get around to reading Shannon Hale's Austenland because I had a suspicion I might...
Since beginning the lessons on Poise, Miri had noticed a change in Felissa’s posture, a lengthening of her neck and a confident set of her shoulders. She did not seem to fit in the swamp anymore. “‘… and when he clambered over the first hill, he saw it,’” Sus said, reading from the book of tales....
The pacing queen directed ministers and physicians to the crib. They listened to her breathing and her hummingbird heart, felt her fierce grip and her tiny fingers soft as salamander skin. All was sound. But her eyes did riot open. For three days the grave-faced attendants came and went. They pro...
Stunned, sure. But as soon as the kids went to bed, she would close her bedroom door, watch TV, and not think. She didn’t miss James next to her—not that much. He’d been gone a lot lately anyway. (Doing what? Don’t think about it, Charlotte. Don’t think!) About a month later, James was set up in ...
It wasn’t that “best” in front of “friend,” or the word “liver.” It wasn’t anything said. But things were a little bit richer. Felix’s presence didn’t buoy her up only after their random and fragmented phone calls—the cheering idea of his existence was constant. It was like switching from white b...
"The clothes she's wearing have so much embroidery, there's not a lick of plain cloth left. Even so, she's not pretty, though she's not like --"150He glanced at me and I think he was sorry he'd said it. I didn't want him to feel sorry he's a good boy mostly, so I asked, "Who is she?""Lady Vachir?...