by Mercedes Lackey
Aleksia, Fairy Godmother of the North, has never had an adventure of her own. Most of her time is spent directing other villagers stories , or fairy tales, with her magic. She finds herself in a adventure of her own trying to clear her name from being accused of wrong doings to her people. Interes...
The thing with a Mercedes Lackey book is you never know what you're going to get when you read it. This particular series - mostly fractured fairy tales - really underscores that. Some are more fantasy, some more romance, some more humor...This one was rather serious. Our h, a godmother of the fr...
Alexia lives in a snow castle in the far North and is one of many Godmothers, magically gifted individuals tasked with making sure that stories have happy outcomes rather than end tragically. The force known as Tradition will try to twist events into legendary stories, just as often as not with unha...
This book was very detailed and dry for a good first half of the book. For a fourth book in a series it was too detailed about the Tradition and Godmothers. It finally got better around the time I was seriously considering putting it into my DNF pile. Just okay for me.
Aleksia, Fairy Godmother of the North, has never had an adventure of her own. Most of her time is spent directing other villagers stories , or fairy tales, with her magic. She finds herself in a adventure of her own trying to clear her name from being accused of wrong doings to her people. Interesti...
Basically no romance at all, aside from a little implied at the end and the love between Veikko and Kaari. I don't know why I expect these to have romance in them, but there it is. I wonder how old Annukka and Aleksia are? I thought Aleksia to be in her late 20s at the oldest, but Annukka says that ...
Ever since I read the Fairy Godmother, the first book of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, it became my goal to read all of these books. As of today, the only books I haven’t read are One Good Knight, Harvest Moon which is a novella and the upcoming 6th book, Beauty and the Werewolf. So with that in...
Similar to the formula in the first book of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, the main character in the fourth of the series is a Godmother named Aleksia or the Ice Fairy/Snow Queen of Ever-Winter. Also like Elena, she was a failed Traditional story twice, hers being that of the Snow White/Rose Red and the...
Mercedes Lackey's "Five Hundred Kingdoms" series present new viewpoints on classic fairy tales. In this case, "The Snow Queen" is based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale of the same name.Godmother Alexsia reigns over the Palace of Ever-Winter and the lands of the north. She uses her mirror magic...
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