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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
4.5 stars!
This book is kind of a retelling of princess and the frog. But, don't let it fool you this book has many twists! It's full of magic and wonder, evil godmothers and selfish kings, tormented princes and confused maidens.
This story tells us the first tale of the Woodcutter Sisters. The story is about our dear Sunday, who is jealous of her sisters.
Monday has her beauty.
Wednesday is a poetic and sees prophecies.
Thursday is the Pirate Queen.
Friday is the kindest girl your ever meet.
Saturday is the tomboy and hard working.
That's all I should tell you. But, if Alethea ever writes a book about one of the brothers it should be Trix.
My thoughts on characters.
Sunday: She is a character you understand immediately. She's like-able ,and love her in the story. When she's sad your sad. You see the world through her eyes and she's got a whole big loving family. In the end you chanting for her and Rumbold to end up together.
Rumbold: I sympathized for him for so long in this story I almost cried. I mean your father hates you and I loved him. He was my favorite main character in this story. Because, Sunday no offense, HE DID A LOT MORE THAN YOU! He was more innocence than Sunday to me for some reason.
Secondary Characters!: Trix was the boy who was going to do things to me. Holy shit he could be Peter Pan! He was a really loving brother, and dudes no offense but, I won't be surprised if he's gay. Raised by Six women. Saturday. I'm not surprised she's getting a book about herself. I want to know what she's going to do with that She was my favorite sister. Let me please just make this simple so I can finish today. READ THIS BOOK!
May we all be doomed to a happy life.
This book is kind of a retelling of princess and the frog. But, don't let it fool you this book has many twists! It's full of magic and wonder, evil godmothers and selfish kings, tormented princes and confused maidens.
This story tells us the first tale of the Woodcutter Sisters. The story is about our dear Sunday, who is jealous of her sisters.
Monday has her beauty.
Wednesday is a poetic and sees prophecies.
Thursday is the Pirate Queen.
Friday is the kindest girl your ever meet.
Saturday is the tomboy and hard working.
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Sunday does not know how she can compete with the them. Until one day she meets Grumble the frog. Grumble asks her to be his friend and to give him a kiss. But, the kiss doesn't work the first time. A few weeks later her brother, Trix sells their cow for beans (sound familiar anybody?), and Grumble gives her a gold ball to make sure her Mama don't get mad. So she kisses Grumble in return and quickly runs off with her brother.That's all I should tell you. But, if Alethea ever writes a book about one of the brothers it should be Trix.
My thoughts on characters.
Sunday: She is a character you understand immediately. She's like-able ,and love her in the story. When she's sad your sad. You see the world through her eyes and she's got a whole big loving family. In the end you chanting for her and Rumbold to end up together.
Rumbold: I sympathized for him for so long in this story I almost cried. I mean your father hates you and
Spoiler
Fucking ate you mother!Secondary Characters!: Trix was the boy who was going to do things to me. Holy shit he could be Peter Pan! He was a really loving brother, and dudes no offense but, I won't be surprised if he's gay. Raised by Six women. Saturday. I'm not surprised she's getting a book about herself. I want to know what she's going to do with that
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sword she got.May we all be doomed to a happy life.
This started off as a cutesy young story, but ended up being more. Lots of adventure, references to fairy tales left and right but still a unique plot. Pretty gun. Characters were aplenty, but I don't feel like I got to know the lead. Some really fun fluff.
Popsugar challenge:
A book based on a fairy tale
Popsugar challenge:
A book based on a fairy tale
I've had this on my to-read list for a while, and picked it up to go ahead a week or two ago. It wasn't a mistake - this is a fun romp and a great read, inspired by the idea of "don't use one fairy tale trope - use them ALL!" The author did a great job weaving disparate fairy tale elements together in the guise of a single family, with interesting twists and turns along the way.
Sunday is the seventh daughter, as might be guessed by her name, and she's the seventh daughter of a seventh son so everyone expects her to have magical powers of some sort. Over the course of the novel, she's tutored by her fairy godmother/aunt, meets a prince who's currently a frog, helps her sister avoid being killed by an evil fairy, and more. It sounds preposterous, but it all weaves together in a way that works surprisingly well, and that kept me turning pages as I wanted to see what would happen next.
This is a great, fun read and has an especially strong an interesting female lead who learns and grows, and while she finds love it's not the main point of the story. I'd definitely recommend this one to anyone who needs a good fairy story in their life!
Sunday is the seventh daughter, as might be guessed by her name, and she's the seventh daughter of a seventh son so everyone expects her to have magical powers of some sort. Over the course of the novel, she's tutored by her fairy godmother/aunt, meets a prince who's currently a frog, helps her sister avoid being killed by an evil fairy, and more. It sounds preposterous, but it all weaves together in a way that works surprisingly well, and that kept me turning pages as I wanted to see what would happen next.
This is a great, fun read and has an especially strong an interesting female lead who learns and grows, and while she finds love it's not the main point of the story. I'd definitely recommend this one to anyone who needs a good fairy story in their life!
So yes, Enchanted is a re-telling of The Frog Prince story but with all the other fairy tales thrown in. This makes for some really nice scenes now and then (my favorite is a Jack & the Beanstalk scene at the end complete with a giant, a castle and a goose) but is also the source of my problems with the book.
First is the weak plot. We know how the frog prince story goes and it happens pretty much that way in this book but because all the other fairy tale characters also show up here there's a lot of detours into their stories as well (Jack & the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Princess & the Pea, Sleeping Beauty). This would be okay if the main plot is strong and interesting but it's not and it felt to me that the author is using these other fairy tales to distract readers from this problem.
My other issue with the book is that it cannot decide what to do with fairy tale tropes.
It adheres to the tropes when it is convenient for the plot--case in point, Sunday falls in love with the frog after three days of talking to him. We know it's love because when Sunday kisses the frog on the third day, poof! the spell is broken. In another book, this would be dismissed as a lazy case of insta-love but since this is supposed to be a fairy tale, it gets a pass (but it's still lazy).
But then, in other cases it tries to subvert a trope and actually becomes something clever--case in point is Sunday's sister Monday, who turns out to be the princess in the Princess & the Pea story. Anyway, Monday marries a prince and becomes a princess before the story starts. Naturally it's assumed she's happy and in love because after all, this is a fairy tale. However when the frog prince asks Monday about her story, she says that she didn't fall in love with her prince and has never been in love with him (in their world, nobody can refuse to marry a prince therefore Monday was pretty much forced into it).
This inconsistency with the use of tropes frustrates me because the book would have been so much better had it avoided annoying fairy tale cliches and did more subversion. The Monday story only took up a few sentences in the book but it was more interesting than most of Sunday's love story because there was so much potential there. Near the end, it is implied that Monday has left the prince (or at least separated from him temporarily). I mean, that's really interesting because it blurs the line between fairy tale (where the princess is supposed to live HEA) and real life (where the are fewer HEAs and more divorces).
Anyway, despite these problems, it is a nice story and the characters sometimes break out of their proscribed fairy tale roles and do something interesting. Also like I mentioned, there are some really nice scenes if you're into fairy tale retellings.
Each of Sunday's family members pretty much deserve a story of their own (personally I want more of Monday's tragic tale) and if the author chooses to write them, I'd definitely read them.
First is the weak plot. We know how the frog prince story goes and it happens pretty much that way in this book but because all the other fairy tale characters also show up here there's a lot of detours into their stories as well (Jack & the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Princess & the Pea, Sleeping Beauty). This would be okay if the main plot is strong and interesting but it's not and it felt to me that the author is using these other fairy tales to distract readers from this problem.
My other issue with the book is that it cannot decide what to do with fairy tale tropes.
It adheres to the tropes when it is convenient for the plot--case in point, Sunday falls in love with the frog after three days of talking to him. We know it's love because when Sunday kisses the frog on the third day, poof! the spell is broken. In another book, this would be dismissed as a lazy case of insta-love but since this is supposed to be a fairy tale, it gets a pass (but it's still lazy).
But then, in other cases it tries to subvert a trope and actually becomes something clever--case in point is Sunday's sister Monday, who turns out to be the princess in the Princess & the Pea story. Anyway, Monday marries a prince and becomes a princess before the story starts. Naturally it's assumed she's happy and in love because after all, this is a fairy tale. However when the frog prince asks Monday about her story, she says that she didn't fall in love with her prince and has never been in love with him (in their world, nobody can refuse to marry a prince therefore Monday was pretty much forced into it).
This inconsistency with the use of tropes frustrates me because the book would have been so much better had it avoided annoying fairy tale cliches and did more subversion. The Monday story only took up a few sentences in the book but it was more interesting than most of Sunday's love story because there was so much potential there. Near the end, it is implied that Monday has left the prince (or at least separated from him temporarily). I mean, that's really interesting because it blurs the line between fairy tale (where the princess is supposed to live HEA) and real life (where the are fewer HEAs and more divorces).
Anyway, despite these problems, it is a nice story and the characters sometimes break out of their proscribed fairy tale roles and do something interesting. Also like I mentioned, there are some really nice scenes if you're into fairy tale retellings.
Each of Sunday's family members pretty much deserve a story of their own (personally I want more of Monday's tragic tale) and if the author chooses to write them, I'd definitely read them.
I wanted to like this book. The premise was cute and I love fairy tale re-tellings, but the bits and pieces of different fairy tales mashed together was clunky and occasionally confusing. The romance left something to be desired, as well. I didn't buy the love story between the hero and heroine. They were suddenly in love and never developed any kind of believable relationship. That said, I'm willing to try the sequel just to see how the warrior sister fares.
this was so goofy. i remember reading this in elementary school and liking it so much i read it in one day. tf was going on in this book??? it pissed me off trying to comprehend the random lore drops. also why does every fairytale…stereotype???idk happen to this one family with the most boring names ever??? like sorry but no thanks. anyways i did in fact giggle a few times and rumbold is endearing.
More like a 2.5, but omg I'm done with this. FINALLY. (from relief)
A very different take on the usual fairy tale story. I actually enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. If you're a fan of fairy tales I would say give this a chance.