Review: Kristen Ashley Does Disney??...with a Rating NC17 of course
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2012
This series has been such a wonderful unexpected surprise for me and book 2, The Golden Dynasty even makes my top 4 of KA favorites. I am not a big fan of anything even slightly paranormal, but KA just touches this realm in this series, and therefore I enjoyed her fantasy world.At first when I began reading Fantastical I felt like I was in the animated movie Snow White with birds singing and fluttering around the characters heads. There was such gaiety with Cora, the heroine, and her sister Rosa, as they floated and frolicked humming and singing their Tra-la-las. Also adding to the Disney feel were three gallant knights riding in on their pure white, steel gray and midnight black stallions with dreamlike names of Dashiel, Orlando, and Noctorno (also called Tor who was the hero). You can't forget the evil witch Minerva and her flying minions, the Vickrants,...think flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz. Of course you also have the rolling hillside, charming villages, and the magestic castle...think Disney's recent movie Tangled where everything is sparkling and green with a magnificent Cinderella-like castle. KA's vivid descriptions are what conjured up all of these fantastic memories in my mind of favorite and beloved animated movies of my past. She transported me, I LOVE IT!Fantastical is the third book in the Fantasyland series, and this romance series is a fusion of several sub genres. It is a mixture of time travel to a parallel universe, it is historical yet, there is no history just a more primitive time setting, as well as, there is paranormal because of witches, sorceresses, and gods.This book was a compilation of similar traits or storyline aspects of the two previous books in the series and had the KA marvelous story structure. If you love KA's style, her over the top alphas and strong sassy heroines, her intense and passionate love stories, Cora and Tor's story will be a satisfying delight.