Enchanted

Once upon a time, a teacher was on vacation with a pile of books, and she lived happily ever after! If you like fairy tales, have I got a book for you! Enchanted by Alethea Kontis takes every fairy tale you can imagine, and twists them into a fairy tale of their own. Sunday Woodcutter is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. She loves nothing more that to tell stories, one problem though, whatever she writes comes true. So she sticks to things that have already happened. One day in the woods, she meets a frog, who says hello. She starts a friendship with this frog named Grumble and finds herself in love with him in no time. Little does she know, you guessed it, he is Prince Rumbold, an enemy of her family. When, unbeknownst to her, she turns him back with her kiss, he is faced with the dilemma of telling her who he really is. So he throws a couple of balls, they meet, they fall in love, and still he doesn't tell her who he is. Drama ensues. A chase occurs, all are reunited. The end.  This story has fairy godmothers, a beanstalk, a lost slipper, a magic spinning wheel and many more familiar tales. There's even a pirate queen. I really enjoyed the way they were all weaved together into quite a cloth of gold. This book has a great message "He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be." As the Prince tries to win Sunday back, he must become someone worthy of her. Tear. Well, that's two girly books in a row, so it's off to the Rot and Ruin for me to check on Benny Imura and his friends as they deal with the loss of Tom in Flesh and Bone, book three of Jonathan Maberry's amazing zombie series. In the meantime, may you all have a happily ever after. Happy reading my friends.