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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
A retelling of the Goose Girl. I think it has some slow moments and is longer than it needs to be but overall I enjoyed it. It has some powerful lessons on justice, classism, loyalty and honesty.
Princess Alyraa lives with her mother the queen and her abusive brother. Her mother doesn’t hurt her but doesn’t stop her brother. She also talks down to her. A king comes to ask for her to
Marry his son. No one can understand why she has been chosen. Her family things she is too
Honest and that it is not a good quality. She doesn’t want to go. She is afraid the prince will
Be like her brother. She speaks to her friend the Wind and the wind tells her not to be afraid.
There are many twist and turns in the story. The lessons learned are great.
Princess Alyraa lives with her mother the queen and her abusive brother. Her mother doesn’t hurt her but doesn’t stop her brother. She also talks down to her. A king comes to ask for her to
Marry his son. No one can understand why she has been chosen. Her family things she is too
Honest and that it is not a good quality. She doesn’t want to go. She is afraid the prince will
Be like her brother. She speaks to her friend the Wind and the wind tells her not to be afraid.
There are many twist and turns in the story. The lessons learned are great.
literally one of my new top books. Stunning, and proof that YA can be a top-notch, moving, and inspiring genre.
I can’t quite pinpoint why I liked this one so much but it was hard to put it down. I was so drawn to several of the characters. I’m excited for the next one.
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-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
I liked the premise... but it took almost half the book for me to actually like anything. The personality of the princess was very Eeyore like.... but it had a strong finish.
Having never heard the fairytale of the “Goose Girl” I was pleasantly surprised by this book. The journey it took me on with the little glimpses of magic, personal growth and varying types of relationships was enjoyable and always left me wanting more when I had to put it down.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
This was fun with a fairly strong underpinning of what is justice. I wish there was more of Falada because a talking horse is just cool, but also a better explanation of what the magic types are as well as the politics (who is the mage's council? Why does the king seem kind but inept?)
Princess Alyrra is from a small kingdom - and when a King from a much more prosperous land requests her hand for his son, there really is no choice to be made. She must go. But before she arrives, one betrayal suddenly gives Alyrra that glorious gift: choice. In her new role as goose girl, Alyrra can choose to work hard and find peace in her new rougher, but in some ways more free, life - or she can choose to help a prince who is surely full of secrets at a cost that may risk even her own life.
This is a fairly faithful retelling of The Goose Girl, although the more developed magical element gives it an interesting twist. Because it's a faithful retelling, there is a talking horse and that took me a while to get used to, for whatever reason. The "evil" character is an addition that adds depth to the plot and I liked how it resolved. The romantic thread is mild and that doesn't necessarily resolve in that way you'd expect but I think I liked that too, it was realistic. What I really liked was the deeper and more ethical threads of justice and mercy, the heavy responsibility that lies over those in a position to judge and meet out punishments. Intriguing and more thought-provoking than the average fantasy novel, I enjoyed it.
This is a fairly faithful retelling of The Goose Girl, although the more developed magical element gives it an interesting twist. Because it's a faithful retelling, there is a talking horse and that took me a while to get used to, for whatever reason. The "evil" character is an addition that adds depth to the plot and I liked how it resolved. The romantic thread is mild and that doesn't necessarily resolve in that way you'd expect but I think I liked that too, it was realistic. What I really liked was the deeper and more ethical threads of justice and mercy, the heavy responsibility that lies over those in a position to judge and meet out punishments. Intriguing and more thought-provoking than the average fantasy novel, I enjoyed it.
The most bland book I read this year. Bk2 won't even follow the same characters, so what was the point of this? Is just felt like a loooong prologue