This is a very sweet retelling of a loveable fairytale. I did enjoy this book but I just can't rate it very high because it was lacking a lot. First off, it felt very 'surface' to me. There is not much depth to the characters. The oldest daughter Rose is the main focus. You don't learn much about her and you basically only learn the names of the 11 other sisters. I really could not get invested in these characters enough to care whether they made it out of the underworld at all.

Also, this is an adaptation of the original story and while there were new elements (Galen can knit and it plays a big roll in saving the princesses,) I just didn't think any of it was really all that clever. From start to finish this book was very predictable and very sweet. The author tried to make the villains dark characters but again, they just fell flat for me.

So while this is a fun read, it was just a bit too simple, undeveloped, and not at all passionate for me.