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booksnorkel's review against another edition
5.0
For me this book is very powerful. I love it when books address the reader and this book does it wonderfully. When your culture loves telling fairy tales you are going to grow up hearing a lot of them. Fairy tales usually have a princess, and she is always beautiful, always. What happens when you aren't a beautiful princess? What happens when you have that little bit of worry that you can't be a true princess because you aren't beautiful? Something dark, powerful, imprisoned might hear your heart's worry and it of course wants to help you. For a price, there is always a price.
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This book was sweet and sorrowful. I really enjoyed this book, and think it's a great read for fourth grade on up. Girls will be who this is aimed at but boys would also enjoy it, especially if they like fairy tales.
This book is about everything. Dragons, princesses, stories, friendship, forbidden books, EVERYTHING. This is a story about a princess who is not perfect looking like real princesses are in the stories. Her father is obsessed with trying to find dragons, and Cassian who is a story teller who is charged with keeping the origin of their world a secret. For knowledge of something gives it power. Stories are important in this world, as the entire world was created to hide a story. To explain further would give away too much.
Sweet and wonderful with just a taste of sorrow this book is worth reading.
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This book was sweet and sorrowful. I really enjoyed this book, and think it's a great read for fourth grade on up. Girls will be who this is aimed at but boys would also enjoy it, especially if they like fairy tales.
This book is about everything. Dragons, princesses, stories, friendship, forbidden books, EVERYTHING. This is a story about a princess who is not perfect looking like real princesses are in the stories. Her father is obsessed with trying to find dragons, and Cassian who is a story teller who is charged with keeping the origin of their world a secret. For knowledge of something gives it power. Stories are important in this world, as the entire world was created to hide a story. To explain further would give away too much.
Sweet and wonderful with just a taste of sorrow this book is worth reading.
lillygabriella's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
A wonderfully enchanting world. A most sneaky vile and vicious villain. Brave heroes. Dragons. Curses and prisons. A bold princess. What more can one ask of a story?
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Infertility, Slavery, War, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
meganihauck's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
mahaliathenerd's review against another edition
5.0
I am a kelly Barnhill fan. Must read everything she writes.
grid's review against another edition
4.0
Collleen (are 7) rated this 5 stars. I was a little more lukewarm on it and might have just rated it 3, but split the difference.
deservingporcupine's review against another edition
3.0
This book lost momentum for me about 2/3 through. I don't know why, exactly. I had to return it to the library before completing it. I also was Intensely annoyed by the illustrations -- one of the major themes of the story was that princesses (or girls) should not be valued based on beauty. Violet is not beautiful. Every drawing depicted her as quite beautiful. I found it infuriating.
delicatewatkins's review against another edition
3.0
More like 3.5 stars. I found myself to be very engaged at the beginning but I found myself skimming the last half of the book. I enjoyed the myriad of lessons learned by Violet and I think this book would be a good teaching tool (morals, individuality) for young readers.
moon_rose's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
linneahedvig's review against another edition
4.0
This was a completely fun book full of mysteries and dragons and confrontations with ancient evil. I enjoyed it, but it still felt like work to get through it. Not sure if it was the book or me, so I'm just giving it 4 stars cause that's what it looks like on paper.
ashleyrhyan's review against another edition
3.0
Decent, but I think it really would be better for much younger readers.