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Wildwood Dancing |
Author: Juliet Marillier
Published: 2008-03-25 |
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 Great Fantasy Romantic Novel
I really liked this book. It is so interesting. It's very innocent but it also has romantic, fantasy, loyalty and many other good things mixed in.
The 12 Frog Princesses
This book is a combination of the frog prince and the 12 dancing princesses but its not a retelling, i has its own unique story. The writing is a little wordy, but thats not a bad thing, it makes you concentrate on the story more, it makes you apperciate the writing. You knw whenver you're reading a book and sometimes you skip a few words? You can't do that, you'll miss a whole thought. Even with that it is still one of my favorite books. I love the story. :)
The Compulsive Reader's Reviews
Deep within the shadowed and mysterious forests of Transylvania live five sisters; Tati, Jena, Iulia, Paula, and Stela. Each Full Moon the sisters slip through a secret portal into the Other World, where they dance the night away with the place's peculiar but inviting inhabitants. But back in their own world, the sisters' quiet lives are thrown wildly off course as their sickly merchant father leaves for warmer climates during the fierce and bitter Transylvanian winter. Jena is left in charge of the business until he returns. But their cousin Cezar is dubious at Jena's abilities, and begins to strip her of her responsibilities, until the sisters are prisoners in their own home.
And to make matters worst, Tati has fallen in love with a mysterious and dangerous man, one who is in the company of the feared Night people, whose strengths are unknown and must drink blood to survive. Tati insists that he is harmless, but Jena is not so easily convinced, and must take it upon herself to right the circumstances and keep their family together throughout the long winter.
This updated and completely unique take on The Twelve Dancing Princesses will leave you breathless. While not quite as dark as her Sevenwaters Trilogy, Wildwood Dancing holds in its pages wonderfully despicable villains, amazingly strong and motivating heroines, eerie settings, and dark deeds that will make you gasp. Cesar's takeover of the Jena's responsibilities will cause righteous indignation, and her struggles against both her worldly foes and her magical ones are completely engrossing, with new revelations and twists every which way. Both worlds are beautifully depicted and detailed, and the plot itself is an exciting froth of greed, betrayals, dark secrets, strength, courage, and true love that will surprise and enchant readers.
 Dancing Princesses
I enjoyed this new swing on the fairy tale "the 12 dancing princesses." She did a good job of weaving the old tale with the new tale. I would recommend it more for a young adult because the plot is fairly predictable to an adult. However, if you want something light and well written, I would recommend this book.
great read
i picked up this book because i've read other books by this author, the sevenwaters trilogy and wolfskin and foxmask, and i enjoyed both the author's writing style and subject matter in those books, so decided to give this a chance. and it was good. it's set in a medieval (ish) romania and is a retelling of the fairy tale the twelve dancing princesses (and possibly another but to say which would kind of spoil it). five sisters are given the privilege of being able to go to the fairy realm every full moon for a night of dancing with faeries and dwarves and trolls, and the like.
near the beginning of the story, the girls' merchant father goes away on business, and he has poor health which causes the girls to worry throughout the novel about their future. when he goes he leaves the financial situation of the household to the second daughter, and narrator, jena, and this is somewhat uncommon behaviour as women were not usually doing business at that time in romania. over the course of the book her male cousin forcibly takes more and more of her responsibility away from her and patronizes her and her sisters. that's basically the set up, and i think to go more into the plot might ruin it a bit, so read the book to find out what happens i guess.
jena had a very practical and down to earth grasp on the world, and while i appreciated this quality in her, more towards the end of the novel it frustrated me a bit that she was so stuck in her practicality. not frustrated in a bad way really, but a frustrated that makes you just want to shake her for her obtuseness. i was only this affected at one point in the novel though, for the most part i liked her.
one thing i kind of didn't like about the novel... the close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears and yell lalalala because you like the rest of the book part of the novel was at the endish of the book, jena's older sister tati's relationship with the guy she liked. she fell in love with one of the night people, which would be similar to a vampire i guess. and i have nothing against who she chose or how they interacted with each other, but with the way she reacted at the end of the novel because she of their uncertain future. it was very 'romantic' and not so much practical... but this was a minor annoyance and i didn't have to focus on it too much because there were other things going on, and the writing was well done.
i enjoy books by this author because she writes well, as i've stated, so the words flow nicely, almost to the point of having an air of sophistication around them, but it's an easy read. also, the author knows what she's talking about subject matter wise. she seems to be well read mythologically, and retells the story knowledgeably. it's a believable rendition of a classic fairy tale, and it's done by a really good author. i say give this one a go.
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