A review by chyina
White Hart by Sarah Dalton

4.0

"White Hart" tells the story of a young girl gifted from birth with the power to call upon nature. It is something that has always been a part of her and yet it is something Mae has to hide, if she doesn't want to marry the prince anyway. You see, the king has declared that the craft-born, as those like her are called, must be married to the prince and she could never she herself in a stuffy castle cut of from nature and Atta, the large white hart that has been her closest companion since she was a child. But when the girl who was pretending to be a craft-born goes missing and her father is murdered she will stop at nothing to get her revenge, even if it means traversing the cursed and ever-changing forest.

Luckily, all the characters are believable and interesting to read. We aren't given the stereotypical prince on a white horse and the enchanted forest has fun and new horrors. Weird sentence, I know. But sometimes when you read about an enchanted forest you get the same couple of characteristics each time but that is not the case with this book. Sarah Dalton took her time to build an interesting and unique world that pushes her characters past their breaking point.

I think that my biggest issue with this book is that Dalton uses color to decide not only if someone is attractive but if they are educated or seen as barbarians. Not a big fan.