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Enchanted
by Alethea Kontis
This novel… It was like the regurgitation of every other fairytale known to man. When I read the synopsis, I thought PRINCESS AND THE PEA!
Yeah… I got that… but I also got some JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, SNOW WHITE, CINDERELLA, and SLEEPING BEAUTY.
And a lot of FAIRIES. Like, they were EVERYWHERE mixing up EVERYTHING.
Basically, this author thought that one fairytale wasn’t enough, no. Instead, she just stuck a bunch together and made ‘em pop up randomly throughout the book.
Another thing I didn’t love about the book was the insta-love. After spending like one hour with said frog prince, she falls in love with him, instantly assumes he’s human in some way, and finds that he’s like her new bestest friend ever. And it’s just like … no.
There’s also a lot of evil fairy, nice fairy, surprise fairy, and all that, and I'm here like C'MON!
Think all of those fairytales above mixed with a large amount of YA fey mythological stuff all kind of rolled up and forced to fit together.
The characters were interesting (they’d have been a lot more interesting if there wasn’t a million of them… I mean, they’re the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter, or whatever, but on top of that there’s like three brothers, and a royal palace of people…). I liked one character, and everyone thought she was insane… The prince’s name bugged me, but I could live with it… and I liked Trix, Velius, and Erik (i.e. the three main supporting characters) more than the main ones…
Speaking of this main character, she left nothing to mystery. Instead, within, like, the first 20 pages, you know the name of every single one of her family members, what they do, what their specialty is, what she does, why her family hates the royal family, some stuff about fairies and how they work, the king, someone’s father, and this frog who’s her new best friend. TA-DA.
Honestly, this book would be so much better if the author stuck to one fairytale and expanded and worked at it to make it something amazing. But she didn't... so well...
Plot: 2/5
Characters: 3/5
World Building: 2.5/5
Cover: 4.5/5
Overall: 2/5
GoodReads Rating: 3.70/5
-review by http://betweenprintedpages.wordpress.com/
Yeah… I got that… but I also got some JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, SNOW WHITE, CINDERELLA, and SLEEPING BEAUTY.
And a lot of FAIRIES. Like, they were EVERYWHERE mixing up EVERYTHING.
Basically, this author thought that one fairytale wasn’t enough, no. Instead, she just stuck a bunch together and made ‘em pop up randomly throughout the book.
Another thing I didn’t love about the book was the insta-love. After spending like one hour with said frog prince, she falls in love with him, instantly assumes he’s human in some way, and finds that he’s like her new bestest friend ever. And it’s just like … no.
There’s also a lot of evil fairy, nice fairy, surprise fairy, and all that, and I'm here like C'MON!
Think all of those fairytales above mixed with a large amount of YA fey mythological stuff all kind of rolled up and forced to fit together.
The characters were interesting (they’d have been a lot more interesting if there wasn’t a million of them… I mean, they’re the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter, or whatever, but on top of that there’s like three brothers, and a royal palace of people…). I liked one character, and everyone thought she was insane… The prince’s name bugged me, but I could live with it… and I liked Trix, Velius, and Erik (i.e. the three main supporting characters) more than the main ones…
Speaking of this main character, she left nothing to mystery. Instead, within, like, the first 20 pages, you know the name of every single one of her family members, what they do, what their specialty is, what she does, why her family hates the royal family, some stuff about fairies and how they work, the king, someone’s father, and this frog who’s her new best friend. TA-DA.
Honestly, this book would be so much better if the author stuck to one fairytale and expanded and worked at it to make it something amazing. But she didn't... so well...
Plot: 2/5
Characters: 3/5
World Building: 2.5/5
Cover: 4.5/5
Overall: 2/5
GoodReads Rating: 3.70/5
-review by http://betweenprintedpages.wordpress.com/