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The Storyteller's Daughter
by Victoria McCombs
Disclaimer: I received this ebook from the author. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book: The Storyteller's Daughter
Author: Victoria McCombs
Book Series: Storyteller's Series Book 1
Rating: 4/5
Recommended For...: Ya, romance, retelling, fantasy
Publication Date: May 7, 2020
Publisher: Indie Published
Pages: 360
Recommended Age: 14+ (slight violence, romance, kidnapping, being used as a pawn)
Synopsis: For as long as anyone can remember, every child in Westfallen has been born with a Gift, and these Gifts defined them.
Then Cosette is born, Giftless.
An attempt to hide her misfortune brings her before the King, who entraps her to use her Gift as a pawn in his war.
Caught in a lie, Cosette desperately searches for a power strong enough to free her. Intrigued by whispers of an old king and a dark curse, she calls upon Rumpelstiltskin and finds him trapped in a magic deeper than she bargained for. Now, Cosette must fight to reclaim her freedom from the King and break Rumpel’s curse. When time runs out, she’ll lose more than her heart. She’ll lose her life.
Review: For the most part I felt like this was a really good book. I like that this is a Rumpelstiltskin retelling because I have really never read one off the top of my head. I liked that the characters were so well developed and that the author took time for that and I also really enjoyed the world building. I like the aspect that in this world you are weird if you aren't born with a gift. That just seems so storybookish but so you need at the same time lol. I also thought that the pacing was well done and the plot kept me intrigued from start to finish.
The only real issue I had with the book was that the author went a bit once upon a time with the relationship pairing. The main character feels like she is Belle from Beauty and the Beast and then we have our Rumpelstiltskin character, and I really didn't like the pairing of them and once upon a time and it really kind of turned me off of the series although I do plan to get back into it in the future. So when I read this book, at a bit of a flashback to that series and it turned me off of it a little bit. But I thought that the author did much better than once upon a time in the relationship between the two.
Verdict: It was a good book!
Book: The Storyteller's Daughter
Author: Victoria McCombs
Book Series: Storyteller's Series Book 1
Rating: 4/5
Recommended For...: Ya, romance, retelling, fantasy
Publication Date: May 7, 2020
Publisher: Indie Published
Pages: 360
Recommended Age: 14+ (slight violence, romance, kidnapping, being used as a pawn)
Synopsis: For as long as anyone can remember, every child in Westfallen has been born with a Gift, and these Gifts defined them.
Then Cosette is born, Giftless.
An attempt to hide her misfortune brings her before the King, who entraps her to use her Gift as a pawn in his war.
Caught in a lie, Cosette desperately searches for a power strong enough to free her. Intrigued by whispers of an old king and a dark curse, she calls upon Rumpelstiltskin and finds him trapped in a magic deeper than she bargained for. Now, Cosette must fight to reclaim her freedom from the King and break Rumpel’s curse. When time runs out, she’ll lose more than her heart. She’ll lose her life.
Review: For the most part I felt like this was a really good book. I like that this is a Rumpelstiltskin retelling because I have really never read one off the top of my head. I liked that the characters were so well developed and that the author took time for that and I also really enjoyed the world building. I like the aspect that in this world you are weird if you aren't born with a gift. That just seems so storybookish but so you need at the same time lol. I also thought that the pacing was well done and the plot kept me intrigued from start to finish.
The only real issue I had with the book was that the author went a bit once upon a time with the relationship pairing. The main character feels like she is Belle from Beauty and the Beast and then we have our Rumpelstiltskin character, and I really didn't like the pairing of them and once upon a time and it really kind of turned me off of the series although I do plan to get back into it in the future. So when I read this book, at a bit of a flashback to that series and it turned me off of it a little bit. But I thought that the author did much better than once upon a time in the relationship between the two.
Verdict: It was a good book!