Title: Entwined
Author: Heather Dixon
Stars: 5
Description: Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it’s taken away. All of it. The Keeper understands. He’s trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation. Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest. But there is a cost. The Keeper likes to keep things. Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.
I am in love with this book. Entwined is very different from anything else I have read before, for one, because usually when I read a fairy re-telling it’s a modern re-telling, and this wasn’t. Another reason why it’s so different is because for once the plot doesn’t have anything to do with vampires, werewolves, ect. This book was wonderful to read.
Azalea and her sisters want to dance. But because of the rules of mourning, the King won’t allow them. After loosing their mother, who died while giving birth to the youngest princess, Lily, the last thing that they would want is not to dance for a year. During this year they must mourn the loss of their mother. That means no dancing, no sunlight, no holidays, no colorful clothing, ect. But Azalea knows that her mother would let them keep dancing. One night when Azalea finds a secret passageway in her and her sister’s room, she and her eleven other sisters travel through it to find a forest of silver, magic, a pavilion where they may dance without anybody knowing, and of course, Mr. Keeper.
Mr. Keeper has been trapped, trapped for a long time. And he wants freed. The only way that Azalea and her sisters can keep dancing is if they help free Keeper. But Azalea doesn’t realize that’s not a good idea until it’s too late.
When I found out that this book was a re-telling of The 12 Dancing Princesses, I knew I had to read it. And I’m so glad that I did because it would have been horrible to miss out on this amazing book.
This book has everything that a fairy tell should have. Romance, which at some parts makes you giggle, humor, which makes you not stop smiling, there are little two and three year olds in this book so of course you have to laugh sometimes, and enough evilness to make you want to keep reading. I don’t know how many times I can say it, this book was just amazing to read.
It did take me about a quarter of the way to really get into this book. I don’t know whether it was because I was reading another really good book at the time, and I was spending all of my time reading that instead of this, or whether there was just a dead spot in this book, but after that first quarter, you just want to read.
The last 100 pages or so were the most intense for me. My family and I went camping and all I wanted to do is read, but we were so busy doing other things that sometimes I had to wait a while.
There are a couple of things that I liked, and one thing that I disliked, that I have to mention about this book. First of all are the relationships between the sisters. I loved how each of the sisters had each others back and how much they loved one another. I always wanted a little sisters, or even a big sister, but being the oldest of three boys, I never got a sister, so I guess it’s nice to read books about them now.
The second thing I want to mention is how I felt about the sisters, when they continued to go into the pavilion when Azalea knew that Keeper was bad. To me, at those times in the book Azalea was just plain stupid. Her younger sisters would talk her in to go dancing and I don’t understand why she didn’t just put her foot down and tell them no. She knew that Keeper was dangerous, but she still took her sisters dancing.
The last thing I want to mention is how the author ended the story. She did an amazing job at the ending. Everything was tied up in the end, nothing hanging loose, and I’m so glad what she made happen with two of the older sisters, Bramble and Clover. Whenever I think about it, I just want to smile.
A few minutes after I finished Entwined, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I still wanted to read and I didn’t want it to end.
Romance: Kissing, talk of meeting gentlemen.
Violence: There was some violence in this book, but it was very mild.
Drug Use: None.
Language: None.
Alcohol: The King drinks scotch and gives some to Azalea.
Other: Magic.
Cover Thoughts: This cover is just beautiful! And it fits the book perfectly!
You definitely need to pick this book up now and start reading. You don’t want to miss it!
Natalie
Title: Supernaturally
