Review: Rapunzel has SCIDs (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) and so, unable to go out into the world, for fear of germs that would make her sick and possibly kill her, she stays in a tower with only her mother to visit her. Her mother has forbade Rapunzel to use her computer for anything other than schoolwork, but one day, while searching for 'face' for a biology project, she comes across Facebook and makes an account. She "meets" a boy named Fane on her account and becomes friends with him by chatting with him online. When her mother goes out of town for a few days, she invites him over and they begin to find out that everything isn't as it seems in Rapunzel's home. Warning! There might be spoilers beyond this point.
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This is a retelling of Arabian Nights. Review: Shahrayar has been betrayed by his wife, who he loved. Hurt and bitterly angry, he vows never to be deceived again. As his wife dies, she tells him that he will not find peace until he has found a woman who could read his heart and one whose he could read. His way of avoiding betrayal endangers every one of the maidens in his kingdom. One night of every month, by the light of the full moon, he will marry a maiden and the next morning she will die. But if a woman should step forward and volunteer to be his bride, he will kill her only and spare the lives of the rest of women. Shahrazad, the daughter of a great storyteller, steps forward to be his bride. She believes that it is her destiny to accept the risk and sacrifice herself, but she has a plan, in which she hopes to be able to see the king's heart. So, to buy time, on her wedding night, Shahrazad begins a story. The king, finding a need to know the end of it, lets her live, night after night. Just when Shahrazad dares to believe that she's found a way to keep her life, and an unexpected love, a treacherous plot disrupts her plan. Now she can only hope that love is enough to save her. Warning: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
Review: This is a fun mix of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood. Gen is a sensible, logical girl, while her brother Jack is the impulsive dreamer. Gen and Jack have grown up to their mother's stories about the World Above, a world in the clouds where she used to live. While Gen took them to just be bedtime stories, Jack took the literally and believed with his whole heart in the World Above. When the crops are failing, they are forced to sell Agapanthus, their cow. Jack goes to sell her and doesn't even get into town. Along the way he meets an old lady who sells him magic beans in trade for the cow. When he gets home, his mother rejoices, because she recognizes the beans and can finally go to her old home in the World Above where she used to be a duchess, before an evil man usurped the throne. Jack goes first to explore the world above, and he doesn't come back, so Gen goes after him and figures out that he's been captured. Warning! Spoilers may exist beyond this line.
This is a set of three retold fairy tales. Before Midnight: Review: This is a retelling of Cinderella. There is a baby born in the D'este home, but when this little girl is born, her mother, Constanze dies and her father blames the girl. The fires in the house suddenly go out, but when the little girl cries, the fires are re-lit and she earns her name, Cendrillon, the child of cinders. When her father remarries, her step-mother doesn't know that he has a daughter, and mistakes Cendrillon as a servant. This is a set of three retold fairy tales. Golden: Review: This book also begins at the birth of the protagonist. A woman is pregnant, but she is wasting away, because of her unquenchable craving for rapunzel, a type of parsley that grows in the sorceress's garden next door. Finally the husband cannot stand it any more and steals some rapunzel from the garden. When he is caught, the sorceress allows him to have as much rapunzel as he wants on one condition, that they will love the baby with everything in them. If they can't, then she will have the baby and love her as her own. The problem with this bargain is that the mother is incredibly vain and wishes for her daughter to have golden hair like she possesses. When the baby is born bald, her mother cannot stand her and declares that she could not possibly love this baby. The sorceress takes the baby and vows to love her as if she was her own daughter. The little girl earns her name, Rapunzel, after the herb that caused all this trouble. Rapunzel grows up without hair in a cottage outside town. The sorceress loves her dearly. When Rapunzel is thirteen a man comes by their house, a tinker and he has an adopted son named Harry. And as much as Harry and Rapunzel tease each other, they start to like each other, as friends. Finally the sorceress tells Rapunzel that her biological daughter is cursed by a wizard to stay in a tower and the only way that her curse can be broken is by love. And Rapunzel is destined to break that curse. Wild Orchid: Review: All Mulan wishes is that she was born a boy. She wants to be free and hates the idea of staying in the house to learn skills that most Chinese women possess. She has no other desire than to learn how to read, write, shoot arrows, ride horses, etc with her best friend Li Po. Her father is the emperor's greatest general and she has never met him. He was fighting a war when her mother died and he never returned home. Mulan has the idea that he hates her. When he comes home, she finds a way to love him and he a way to love her. When the emperor commands a man to come from every household to fight the attack of the Huns on China, Mulan decides to go in her father's place. He is old and still not quite healed from an old wound and she knows he will never survive. Warning: There may be spoilers below this line. |
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