I'm on the fence here. I liked the story, the writing style and the characters. I also loved the twist on a couple of classic fairytales. What I didn't love was the predictability. I guessed everything pretty much right away. With the right type of book, I don't mind at all when I guess the big...
"We needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work." pg 367At a glance, it is not difficult to determine that Wildwood Dancing is a tale about the transition between child and adolescence. Marillier weighs in the pros and ...
I really, really enjoyed the first half of the book. Everything was on the brink of disaster, and the author does a great job of making the reader think "how will the main character ever set things to rights?" I was so impressed with the first half that I probably would have given it 4 or 5 stars. B...
Originally Posted on Debz BookshelfI'd heard so many good things about this book, so I was really looking forward to it. I'm really glad I was so excited for it, otherwise I might not have made it through. The whole story moved very slowly. Slower than I was accustomed to. There were some moments th...
Wildwood Dancing is a loose retelling of the famous fairytale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The five sisters of Piscul Draculi venture down into the Other Kingdom, a place of magic and danger, to dance every full moon. The sisters spend the night in blissful happiness, all except Jena. Jena is the ...
Hm, this one is tough to rate. Higher than three stars, but definitely not round-upable to four. So I guess 3.25 stars?As always Juliet Marillier's prose is lovely and atmospheric. A retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses and The Frog Prince, the story is set in Transylvania and told from the...
Wildwood Dancing is a pleasant and entertaining read. It kept me up late at least once. The storyline is fairy tale-inspired: five sisters use a magic portal to pass into the Otherworld every full moon night. But while their father is ill, their domineering cousin Cezar begins to take over, and he p...
I don't know if I'm just getting better at this, but I predicted everything that would happen by (about) the second chapter; so I'd be dishonest if I didn't call this book predictable. Usually when I can see what's comming I lose interest but not with this book. I love this book. The writing is exce...
I don't know if I'm just getting better at this, but I predicted everything that would happen by (about) the second chapter; so I'd be dishonest if I didn't call this book predictable. Usually when I can see what's comming I lose interest but not with this book. I love this book. The writing is exce...
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