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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
tense
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:
Complicated
Sometimes you’re home and go through your old bookshelves.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love Juliet Marillier so, so much, and was pretty much an uncommunicative blob the second I started reading one of the books from her Sevenwaters Trilogy. But while this was a lovely exploration of the Romanian mythology that gets overshadowed by the Dracula legends, I found myself fed up with the dialogue and the characters, groaning over conversations that sounded stilted and unnatural, and wanting to shake various characters for multiple reasons, multiple times. Maybe YA is just not her thing? Perhaps it does not allow the same depths of prose, due to page counts, and what is marketable, etc. *sigh*
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Really loved this book! I very much enjoyed Marillier's style of writing, and that the book was like a mash-up of 12 Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beast, and Princess and the Frog. The cover is beautiful as well. Going to quickly give this a re-read, as it was that good. Then I'll start on the companion book.
(My only slight complaint is that I wish the reader had gotten more of a view of)
(My only slight complaint is that I wish the reader had gotten more of a view of
Spoiler
Jena and Costi being in love as humans. It sort of ended immediately after they made up and decided to get married :/ I would have been happy with one more lovey-dovey conversation as closure.
This book made me want to scream. In a good way? Or at least in a really well written way. And ultimately the pay off was really good, I love a satisfying fairy story.
Wildwood Dancing is a retelling of Twelve Dancing Princesses, set in historic Romania. Also with some other folklore and fairytales mixed in, frogs and vampires etc. There are five girls, not twelve, and they are a merchant's daughters.
The action of the book starts when their father, who is sick, goes on a trip leaving Jena, the protagonist and second eldest daughter, in charge of his business at home. Their father has unconventional opinions, such as that women ought to be educated and that they, idk, are capable of doing things.
But in his absence, Jena's cousin begins to overstep into their affairs in the guise of protecting them. Every single interaction with Cezar made me want to scream and run away, as he just took things away from them and just smiled and shook his head when they argued.
I liked how Jena is constantly being told that she just wants to control everything when she is just trying to control her own life.
The ending was really sweet and fairytale like, I love the way that the magic weaves a tale and the witch kinda puppets everything.
Wildwood Dancing is a retelling of Twelve Dancing Princesses, set in historic Romania. Also with some other folklore and fairytales mixed in, frogs and vampires etc. There are five girls, not twelve, and they are a merchant's daughters.
The action of the book starts when their father, who is sick, goes on a trip leaving Jena, the protagonist and second eldest daughter, in charge of his business at home. Their father has unconventional opinions, such as that women ought to be educated and that they, idk, are capable of doing things.
But in his absence, Jena's cousin begins to overstep into their affairs in the guise of protecting them. Every single interaction with Cezar made me want to scream and run away, as he just took things away from them and just smiled and shook his head when they argued.
I liked how Jena is constantly being told that she just wants to control everything when she is just trying to control her own life.
The ending was really sweet and fairytale like, I love the way that the magic weaves a tale and the witch kinda puppets everything.
Okay this book was a disappointment. I don’t mean it was bad, because it was not but after the Blackthorn and Grim trilogy this book was definitively not as good.
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