Best read when not beset with distractions like kids, laundry, meals, spouses, cats... So the premise of the series is simple - you have citizens, and you have the Tradition whereupon at least some are pressured into fitting a known fairy tale mold. Our h was supposed to be a Cinderella but fate s...
I need to stop jumping around so much with different kinds of books. Oh well.I didn't take any book notes for this book, so I'm not going to have that much to say.I love the idea of the Tradition. I didn't know one of the stories: Fair Rosalinda. Never heard of it before. I also didn't realize that ...
You never know what you are getting into when you start a thick book such as this one. Will it move fast? Will it’s chapters be long? For the most part the journey in the book was well paced. The chapters were long and I sometimes felt like I needed an extra break to stop but I love the twist in ...
I love the retelling of myths, legends and fairy tales. Don't know why this never got on my radar before but I really enjoyed it. A complete and unexpected retelling by the Cinderella story. There's magic, fantasy and a bit of romance in the story. It's not for those wanting the darker side of fa...
Interesting and clever premise for a series. Subtly subverting the archetype of Cinderella, Lackey interprets the fairy tale in an original and fun tale. I think the opening chapters fell a little bit flat, and were slightly boring the first hundred pages or so. I liked her idea for how magic works ...
It’s my first time to read a book by Mercedes Lackey. It’s also my first to read an adult fantasy book. Probably because I found the excerpts of some strangely focused on…well, – to lightly put it – intimacy; which I prefer it to be seen somehow only in a chapter or two. I like fantasy books that en...
This is a totally refreshing take on fairytales: everything is part of The Tradition (imagine scary music entering). And I'm not kidding when I say the Tradition can be scary. There are people who are sort of chosen, around which the Tradition gathers potential, a power that drives them to follow a ...
One of the pleasures of reading Lackey's books is that the different series have such different tones. This is one I've read a couple times - the Five Hundred Kingdoms series is much lighter than some of the other series. This is a nice twist on Cinderella - watching Cinderella become the fairy go...
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