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A review by feministfaereads87
The Golden Braid by Melanie Dickerson
4.0
I'm giving this book the benefit of the doubt even though it's really a 3.5 star book.
-the book was very similar to tangled AT PARTS though it definitely differed.
-the book was set in the 1400s and I'm delightfully surprised that rapunzel knew how to throw a knife and an array of other things. and she desperately wanted to learn how to read. I admire that SO MUCH.
-the book referenced and quoted the Bible, which is something I don't see a lot, and it was pleasantly different. it also touched on the love and power of God, which I know about because I'm religious, so it was something I liked.
-however, the writing was not very descriptive. it felt like things moved very fast and happened quickly. (which I didn't hate, I just wanted some more details)
-rapunzel's character felt like two different people at times: one minute she was a badass who could throw knives and she was sassing Sir Gerek, but the next she was quavering and being docile towards her "mother"
-I do LOVE that she asked Gerek for a recommendation as a maid at the castle, to be independent of her mother and make money on her own
-I liked gerek for the most part. I admired his desire to marry a woman before having sex with her. I disliked his attitude towards rapunzel at first: "she's a peasant, I can't think like that. I can't fall for her!1!1!" fuck societal norms. anyways, it took him like 2/3 of the book to realize he loved her and was gonna ask her to marry him, but the whole book he felt this notion of protecting her. yes, he saved her on multiple occasions, as she acted as the atypical "damsel in distress" but I wish she would've saved herself in more of those situations than just one or two because I think that would have made Gerek less inclined to be borderline overprotective
-I am and always will be a fan of benevolent and beloved rulers because history usually remembers the the tyrants and the man-whores; so I enjoyed seeing the duke and the lady in charge of the kingdom because they were genuinely good people
-I also found out that this was a sixth book in a series of books, but I don't think they're all that connected, so I don't think I missed TOO much. I might eventually read the others, but probably not anytime soon
-the book was very similar to tangled AT PARTS though it definitely differed.
-the book was set in the 1400s and I'm delightfully surprised that rapunzel knew how to throw a knife and an array of other things. and she desperately wanted to learn how to read. I admire that SO MUCH.
-the book referenced and quoted the Bible, which is something I don't see a lot, and it was pleasantly different. it also touched on the love and power of God, which I know about because I'm religious, so it was something I liked.
-however, the writing was not very descriptive. it felt like things moved very fast and happened quickly. (which I didn't hate, I just wanted some more details)
-rapunzel's character felt like two different people at times: one minute she was a badass who could throw knives and she was sassing Sir Gerek, but the next she was quavering and being docile towards her "mother"
-I do LOVE that she asked Gerek for a recommendation as a maid at the castle, to be independent of her mother and make money on her own
-I liked gerek for the most part. I admired his desire to marry a woman before having sex with her. I disliked his attitude towards rapunzel at first: "she's a peasant, I can't think like that. I can't fall for her!1!1!" fuck societal norms. anyways, it took him like 2/3 of the book to realize he loved her and was gonna ask her to marry him, but the whole book he felt this notion of protecting her. yes, he saved her on multiple occasions, as she acted as the atypical "damsel in distress" but I wish she would've saved herself in more of those situations than just one or two because I think that would have made Gerek less inclined to be borderline overprotective
-I am and always will be a fan of benevolent and beloved rulers because history usually remembers the the tyrants and the man-whores; so I enjoyed seeing the duke and the lady in charge of the kingdom because they were genuinely good people
-I also found out that this was a sixth book in a series of books, but I don't think they're all that connected, so I don't think I missed TOO much. I might eventually read the others, but probably not anytime soon