Enchanted
by Alethea Kontis
Publication date: May 8, 2012
It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to
sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is
writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.
When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.
The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers? (description from Amazon.com)
When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.
The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers? (description from Amazon.com)
This is definitely one of the best fairy tale mash-ups I have read in a long time. It outright sparkles.
The characters are well drawn, fully fledged...with flaws and all. They have hidden agendas, complicated interactions, and yet also a seemingly infinite hope for a bright and loving future.
Here, fanciful bits of almost every classic fairy tale combine and dance through Sunday's story, creating a vibrant, effervescent new world for readers to play in. The twists and turns of the story include nods to genre classics, and end up highlighting an emotional depth that I had not expected in the story.
This is truly a book that no fairy tale reader should miss.
Worthy of a sparkly gold star.
Full disclosure: ARC received to review for SLJ
This book definitely looks good. I'm glad you liked it. It sounds so...unique.
ReplyDeleteGreat Review.