I was going to talk about one book, Princess Academy, by author Shannon Hale. But I can't limit myself to talking about just one. She has four: Princess Academy, Goose Girl, River Secrets and Enna Burning. That order is how I rank them. If you read them, however, the order should be Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets and then Princess Academy is a stand alone book. They are books I'd like to suck up with a straw. Delicious! I devoured them like I was starving. Perhaps because I had so recently finished reading a whole row of poorly written fantasy. These books were like breezes that brushed aside the tasteless writing I had just endured, and left me satisfied--although I hated for them to end. A bit of magic, royal blood, battles, true love, with a depth in the characters that is surprising complex in a fairy tale world.
Read one! Then tell me what you think.
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Just the way you describe them makes me want to run out and buy them right now! I remember you mentioning them to me and they are on my amazon wishlist, but maybe I better wrap up a few and put them under the tree!
Thanks!
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