Keelie Heartwood is just your average American teenage girl- she loves to shop, hang out with friends, go to the beach, and party. Just one little problem. She's allergic to wood. It doesn't help that when her mother dies, she's sent to live with her father, who travels with Renaissance Festivals and does woodworking. So, she's stuck with her eccentric father in a place where it's cool to be old fashioned, she has no freedom, and the one guy she likes is practically royalty, with a princess for a girlfriend. On top of it all, she has just stumbled upon a secret that will change her life forever: she's part elf. Which explains her one pointed ear, and the fact that her allergy to wood isn't an allergy at all. Not to mention the fact that when she's around trees, they tend to talk to her. Can she save the lives- and livliehoods- of her people? Or is she part of a species that is destined to die out? And, can a poor shepherd's daughter actually be with a prince, when a princess is her competition? The first book is The Tree Shepherd's Daughter, then Into the Wildewood, then The Dread Forest. I give the series 4 stars, for being a bit slow at times, but it's very good even so.
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Faire Folk Trilogy by Gillian Summers
Keelie Heartwood is just your average American teenage girl- she loves to shop, hang out with friends, go to the beach, and party. Just one little problem. She's allergic to wood. It doesn't help that when her mother dies, she's sent to live with her father, who travels with Renaissance Festivals and does woodworking. So, she's stuck with her eccentric father in a place where it's cool to be old fashioned, she has no freedom, and the one guy she likes is practically royalty, with a princess for a girlfriend. On top of it all, she has just stumbled upon a secret that will change her life forever: she's part elf. Which explains her one pointed ear, and the fact that her allergy to wood isn't an allergy at all. Not to mention the fact that when she's around trees, they tend to talk to her. Can she save the lives- and livliehoods- of her people? Or is she part of a species that is destined to die out? And, can a poor shepherd's daughter actually be with a prince, when a princess is her competition? The first book is The Tree Shepherd's Daughter, then Into the Wildewood, then The Dread Forest. I give the series 4 stars, for being a bit slow at times, but it's very good even so.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Dragonfly By Julia Golding
Princess Taoshira of the Blue Crescent Islands is used to order. Every single day is planned out to the minute, from what time she wakes, what she dresses in, how she dresses, the ceremonies she does, she doesn't have any room for movement. Prince Ramil is used to freedom. He can do as he likes pretty much every second of his life, and that's how he likes it. So when they learn that they are to marry each other, they are understandably rather appalled. But when they get kidnapped, they find that they will have no escape- from their kidnappers, or each other. They must avoid brainwashing, unarmed combat, and imprisonment- from the very kingdom that their two countries strove to bring down in their alliance. In this cute, Shannon Hale- like novel, we find out what happens when two completely different people from other sides of the world are brought together and fall in love. I whole-heartedly give it 5 stars, and reccommend it to everyone, from 10 year olds to moms.
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