A review by candidcopywriter
A Bear's Bride by Shari L. Tapscott

4.0

I don't really know which fairytale this book is based on; I can only guess "Beauty and the Beast", but that doesn't seem accurate. But that doesn't really matter, because I think I fell in love with Shari L. Tapscott's style! The way she's written Sophie and Henri is just amazing!

The introduction of trolls and Elsland, in particular, was inspired. I loved Sophie's gift as well, which was otherwise useless but turned out to be of some use in the end. The story, in itself, was quite unconventional, which made me love it even more.

Rather than initial hatred-turned-love stories where Prince Charming usually has to make the first move, Sophie is the bold one in this relationship, although the pesky fairy godfather Mortimer is technically the one who made the first move.

Like most of the other novels in the Entwined Tales series, I found this, too, a bit rushed, but I guess that's because none of them is a novel, per se. They're all just novellas, and for a novella, this one was amazing.