![]() ![]() As the sister of a sister, I am a sucker for stories that highlight that bond (something that's still too uncommon in media). Since it's impossible for there to be no comparison to Disney's Frozen with this book, to me she felt like a lovely combination of both Anna and Elsa and it just works. She has selfish thoughts, she has selfless thoughts, she struggles with self-doubt but doesn't get weighed down by it at any point. Her inner dialogue never makes her either too mature or immature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ❤ The heroine acts like a 12/13 year old. That is the kind of connection to middle-grade literature that is hard to come by something that is clearly written for a young audience and yet manages to offer something for the grown-ups who might be reading along. I quite literally imagined myself introducing my child to the story, reading it to them at night (alongside other fantasy favorites of mine, like The Hobbit). It's the kind of book I wish I could have read when I was a girl and it's the first book in a long time that made me stop and wish I had a child of my own to share it with. It's a fun, adorable blend of many tried-and-true tropes used in the fantasy genre, some of them subverted (think Ella Enchanted in fact there were a few things that I felt might have been directly inspired by that story), that manages to do something unique in spite of it all. What this book lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in its sincerity. I'm even inclined to say 4.5 stars! Which is kind of a huge deal. ![]()
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