Review: everything I wanted it to be...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
What to say? It's fun and lighthearted and a magical kind of romance, everything a fairytale inspired book should be. It's swoon worthy and fast paced and I just loved every minute of it, especially the similarities to Rapunzel in this contemporary magic free book.A few of my favorite things --Anya - I loved Anya, she's a book worm which is always a plus and I loved the references to different YA books in it. Honestly the main things I loved about her though were that even though she is essentially locked away in her house and has next to no interaction with people she's not naive, and she doesn't hold it against her mom, yes she finally comes to realize that it's not right what her mom has done to her but she doesn't hate her for that. She's mature and caring and a breath of fresh air in the world of YA.-Zander - He's sweet and cute and swoon worthy. I feel like that's all I need to say on his character. =)-Anya's mom - Mainly I loved the back story, I wasn't sure how that was going to work when going into this book and how the author was going to tie it into a Rapunzel retelling type thing, whatever you want to call it, but it was perfect. It made total sense of why her mom locked her away like that and alternatingly made you feel bad for her and get annoyed because she needs to let the girl live already. All together I thought her character was just done really well.- Side characters - Blake and Shannon - While neither was in it a ton I loved them both. Shannon is basically Anya's only friend, a fellow book nerd and a key player in that she helps them pass notes and back and forth, which was just so fun and swoon worthy. Blake is Zander's cousin and an equally fun and enjoyable character.-The pacing - It's fast paced without being too fast. I just loved the way it was told, from both of their points of view and focusing pretty much solely on their time together. It made it easy to read and just really enjoyable.-The writing- I am not good at describing writing so let's just say it's awesome, okay?Overall - It's an awesome thoroughly enjoyable book, I read it in like 2 hours and loved every minute of it. There's really not anything bad I can think of to say about it, that's not to say it's perfect but really nothing irritated me I feel like the fast pace helped with that, and yeah it's just fun and magical and everything a fairytale should be, everything I wanted this book to be and yeah, so read it.