Bewitching: The Kendra Chronicles
Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out alright. Others didn't.I go to a new school now—one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I'm not still here because I'm stupid; I just don't age.You see, I'm...
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Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out alright. Others didn't.I go to a new school now—one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I'm not still here because I'm stupid; I just don't age.You see, I'm immortal. And I pretty much know every-thing after hundreds of years—except for when to take my powers and butt out.I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I don't even want to think about it.Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn't get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl—and it isn't an enchanted pumpkin. Although you never know what will happen when I start . . .Bewitching
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062024169 (0062024167)
ASIN: 0062024167
Publish date: 2013-04-16
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Series: Kendra Chronicles (#2)
What if the fairy tales we all grew up on got it wrong? What if the evil step-sisters weren't so bad, but cruelly manipulated by Cinderella? What if the mermaid didn't get her "happily ever after" with her prince,but a tragic end? What if the witch wasn't an evil shrew, but just a lonely girl who tr...
I think Alex Flinn is amazing. Even though none of her books have earned the coveted 5-star rating on this blog, I love them for their ingenuity. She takes such a familiar story, and completely reinvents it. And unlike most fairy tale retellings, she plops her characters down into the real world and...