Tag: Fairy Tales

  • REVIEW of The Peasant’s Dream (Hagenheim #11) by Melanie Dickerson

    REVIEW of The Peasant’s Dream (Hagenheim #11) by Melanie Dickerson

    As the youngest daughter of the Duke of Hagenheim, Adela is never allowed to venture outside the castle walls alone. Disguising herself as a serving girl, she sneaks out to the marketplace where she encounters Frederick, the longsuffering stepson of a loutish farmer who aspires to one day be a woodcarver. Continuing to conceal her…

  • REVIEW of The Thirteenth Princess by Nina Clare

    REVIEW of The Thirteenth Princess by Nina Clare

    You’ve all heard the story of the twelve dancing princesses…but what about the thirteenth princess, the one with no name who was written out of the story? A blight on the perfect symmetry of her four sets of triplet siblings, “Princess” is the unpolished stone in a family of gems. But although she may not…

  • REVIEW of The Swan King by Nina Clare

    REVIEW of The Swan King by Nina Clare

    Elsa is a beautiful and unusual girl in nineteenth century Bavaria. She has the mysterious gift of being able to talk to animals, a gift that could prove valuable to cruel Count Wuelfen as he builds his stable of racehorses. When Elsa’s father disappears on a business trip, her greedy stepmother arranges for her to…

  • REVIEW of The Lady and the Wish: A King Thrushbeard Romance (Faraway Castle #4) by J.M. Stengl

    REVIEW of The Lady and the Wish: A King Thrushbeard Romance (Faraway Castle #4) by J.M. Stengl

    Gillian is a spoiled brat who has her heart set on marrying royalty. But when her father reveals an embarrassing debt to another aristocratic family, Gillian is forced to leave her life of glitz, glamor, and social media braggadocio to work as companion to an old lady at a remote villa. The temperamental dowager seems…

  • REVIEW of West (East #2) by Edith Pattou

    REVIEW of West (East #2) by Edith Pattou

    After rescuing her White Bear prince in the previous book, Rose is living happily with Charles and their children Estelle and Winn, but not happily ever after. When she travels to visit her parents, she learns that Charles’ own ship has been shipwrecked. As Rose tries to trace his whereabouts, Winn and Estelle disappear, and…

  • REVIEW of The Warrior Maiden (Hagenheim #9) by Melanie Dickerson

    Mulan, a half-Asian girl who can shoot arrows better than any boy, has grown up as a pariah in her village in Lithuania. When her father dies, she must take his place in the army of the local warlord to ensure that her mother is not kicked out of their house. Concealing her identity as…

  • REVIEW of The Princess Search: A Retelling of the Ugly Duckling (The Four Kingdoms #5), by Melanie Cellier

    REVIEW of The Princess Search: A Retelling of the Ugly Duckling (The Four Kingdoms #5), by Melanie Cellier

    When Princess Celine asks Evie to come with the royals of Lanover on a tour of their kingdom, the young seamstress can hardly refuse. But even though she feels confident in her skills as royal dressmaker, Evie is hardly confident about her ability to remain calm as she revisits the places from her nomadic and…

  • REVIEW of East, by Edith Pattou

    REVIEW of East, by Edith Pattou

    Her mother was facing north when Rose was born…which means that that the girl will be a traveler, a wanderer. Add to that the prophecy that this Norwegian north child will perish in an avalanche of ice and snow, and you can see why Rose’s mother wants her to never go out of doors. But…

  • REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    Orphaned at age five in the Holy Land, Aladdin is found by a master thief and forced to steal from market goers. But when he tries to steal from a knight and gets caught, a priest takes pity on the boy, adopts him, and brings him home to the orphanage in Hagenheim. There he grows…

  • REVIEW of The Woodcutter, by Kate Danley

    REVIEW of The Woodcutter, by Kate Danley

    When I was little, my favorite part of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show was always the “Fractured Fairytales” segment. I loved how they took classic fairy tales and gave them a humorous twist. Lately, this same idea has become increasingly popular as TV shows like Once upon a Time and movies like Shrek put their…