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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
I didn't enjoy this as much as The Princess and the Hound. The hound and the bear certainly had to figure things out with the magic and changing back into humans, but it was a slow (sometimes boring) process. Still look forward to more from the author, though.
Another quick review -
The princess and the bear continues with beatrice and richon, as they try todiscover magic and a new life. Unfortunately, they also discover unmagic, which kills anything and everything in it's part. Will Beatrice and richon be able to save their forest? With the wild mans help??
The princess and the bear continues with beatrice and richon, as they try todiscover magic and a new life. Unfortunately, they also discover unmagic, which kills anything and everything in it's part. Will Beatrice and richon be able to save their forest? With the wild mans help??
The hound continues her adventure with a bear. I didn't like Richon's personality as much as George's, but the fairy tale was strange enough to be interesting if sometimes a bit simplistic about magic and unmagic and love.
Picking up where the Princess and the Hound left off, we learn more about the Wild Man, the unmagic, and the past. I definitely wouldn't recommend reading this without reading the first in the series.
I liked how this was written - there is a stark quality about it that I found engrossing. It was the exact opposite of the dreaded purple prose, and did so beautifully. The hound, Chala, was a difficult character to sympathize with, but it isn't at all surprising - she's a hound, not a human. One thing I absolutely loved was how the characters changed form, but not personality. Whether a woman or a hound, Chala viewed the world in the same way.
I liked how this was written - there is a stark quality about it that I found engrossing. It was the exact opposite of the dreaded purple prose, and did so beautifully. The hound, Chala, was a difficult character to sympathize with, but it isn't at all surprising - she's a hound, not a human. One thing I absolutely loved was how the characters changed form, but not personality. Whether a woman or a hound, Chala viewed the world in the same way.
An interesting take on the fairy tale genre; however, I found the logic a little hard to get past. I normally enjoy a good fantasy and have no trouble getting into that world and believing the story even if it is seemingly unbelievable; however, I had difficulty in dealing with this story. A bear and a dog being friends? And then falling in love when their humans? It was hard to understand the logic behind this. I also had a hard time believing the characters, Chala was a bit too masculine and Richon a little too feminine. They weren't overly developed characters and seemed a little empty. I would recommend this book to a younger teen audience. While the book did tackle some tough issues, it always seemed to be at a distance to me. That said, I thought the book was very much written in the style of a fairy tale for the above reasons.
Best book of the series, it was...
Sad, happy, romantic, and adventures
Sad, happy, romantic, and adventures
This is the princess book for girls who don't do princess books. You probably need to read the first book first (which I don't really remember clearly, but wished the whole time that I did), but I don't remember liking it as much as I liked this book. Like the first book, this is an original fairy tale. It has so many elements of old Native American animal tales that I have read before, but it also feels a tiny bit like King Arthur.
This 'princess' is tough as nails and smart and so very logical. I like her immensely. In fact, she's the reason this book got 4 stars instead of 3. This is a really good example of a positive female in literature. I loved that she ultimately really saved the day. I mean, the King/Bear did plenty of work, but the greatest accomplishment was hers.
The catman villain was absolutely frightening to me from the beginning, though I can't really pinpoint why...he wasn't even in that much of the book, but he just seemed to be pure evil.
And of course the cherry on top was this line, "A librarian! Yes, of course. Now his kingdom was complete."
This 'princess' is tough as nails and smart and so very logical. I like her immensely. In fact, she's the reason this book got 4 stars instead of 3. This is a really good example of a positive female in literature. I loved that she ultimately really saved the day. I mean, the King/Bear did plenty of work, but the greatest accomplishment was hers.
The catman villain was absolutely frightening to me from the beginning, though I can't really pinpoint why...he wasn't even in that much of the book, but he just seemed to be pure evil.
And of course the cherry on top was this line, "A librarian! Yes, of course. Now his kingdom was complete."
From the get-go I was horribly, horribly confused.
I understand that the author was trying to write as if they were the thoughts of a bear and a hound but it was just so. bad.
Apparently there is this evil person of some sort who is terrorizing the forest. And he leaves behind gray matter that kills everything it touches. As the bear and the hound were walking through the forest, they came around a deer that was decomposing because of the gray matter. Pretty terrible, right? That wasn't it: the deer had been pregnant with a baby and that baby also died. Somehow, however the gray matter decomposed the bodies, the bear and hound could tell that the deer had died or was still dying with a baby.
Horrible. Just horrible. And that was in the first sixty pages or so.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. The writing style seemed so juvenile and off that I don't know how it became a book. The plot seemed so half-hearted and didn't really make any sense. It was bad to say the least...
I understand that the author was trying to write as if they were the thoughts of a bear and a hound but it was just so. bad.
Apparently there is this evil person of some sort who is terrorizing the forest. And he leaves behind gray matter that kills everything it touches. As the bear and the hound were walking through the forest, they came around a deer that was decomposing because of the gray matter. Pretty terrible, right? That wasn't it: the deer had been pregnant with a baby and that baby also died. Somehow, however the gray matter decomposed the bodies, the bear and hound could tell that the deer had died or was still dying with a baby.
Horrible. Just horrible. And that was in the first sixty pages or so.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. The writing style seemed so juvenile and off that I don't know how it became a book. The plot seemed so half-hearted and didn't really make any sense. It was bad to say the least...
The writer and I have fundamental differences of opinion in our theologies, and this book highlights them.