This was lovely and unexpected. Set in a sort of alternate medieval fantasy!Mongolia, it brings to mind classic fairytales with a princess locked in a tower for defying her father's mandate to marry the evil lord of a neighbouring land. Except the hero of the story is neither the resistant princes...
Shannon Hale is known for her creative fairy tale novelizations. This one is an adaptation of Grimm's Maid Maleen. It's quite obvious from the start how it's all going to go, but the journey was fairly enjoyable. I particularly liked the twist of setting the story in a sort of mythic medieval Mon...
Set in historical Mongolia (which I guessed - yay me!) based on Grimm's Maid Maleen (pg801 of [b:The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales|22917|The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales|Jacob Grimm|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1369540060s/22917.jpg|1855987] or read for free here).
In "Book of a Thousand Days", author Shannon Hale presents us with an interesting story about Dashti the lady's maid through her diary. Based off of the obscure fairy tale, "Maid Maleen", the tale follows Dashti and her lady, Saren as they are imprisoned for three years in a tower and later how they...
4.5 out of 5 StarsThis is a book I’ve heard garner a lot of praise and I love female coming-of-age and female friendship stories. Add a unique premise and a fantasy setting based on Mongolia after the Khans, and I was sold (the fact it was on sale helped too!) This book was everything I hoped it wou...
WOW. when i started reading this book, it didnt exactly drag me in. Still i read on hoping to see how the book went. It started getting to my nerves how Dashti could act so stupid at times and how Saren was always crying. But then they escaped the tower and from there on the story picked up pace and...
The first thing that I loved about this book was the writing style. I was immediately immersed in this journal from a maid that felt so authentic. The maid also had me laughing with her honesty. The mythology was so beautiful and unique. I knew where I hoped the plot would go, but I honestly couldn...
This particular story has a fairy tale feel to it... and it was incredibly entertaining. Seven years they were to stay, Lady Saren and her handmaid Dashti. You’d think the first a strong princess, a brave one… another one of those in your face, I’ll do as I please versions of princesses. She’s not. ...
This is such a stunning novel. It tells a classic fairy tale in such a unique, original way. The beginning is extremely slow. The first time I read it, I found it boring. The second time around, it became my favorite part. It was boring, because there isn't much to write about when you're locked up ...
Hale has taken a fairy tale I wasn't familiar with, setting it in a sort of medieval Mongol world, and presented it as realistically as possible, despite the fantasy elements. Most enjoyable. It seemed less like one of Hale's other books, and more like Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword, in part becaus...
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