Review: undoing the fairytale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2012
What a fantastic cast of characters -- this is a great new series by Penelope Fletcher. I loved the Demon Girl series and I can see the growth in Ms. Fletcher as a writer as I like this dragon series even more. Ms. Fletcher is deconstructing a fairy tale here and it is riveting. The dragons in this book live in a brutal world which is on the cusp of evolving. Of course our heroine Marina is just the shove it needs. I am not a fan of plot summaries in lieu of an actual opinion of a book. Here's mine: the characters were extremely well drawn, caricature was used for comic relief and well done as in the case of Nicholai. The fairy tale genre is turned on it's ear as women must battle to get their mates and serve as their protectors. Fighting is to the death and killing your intended's family to use as bait is acceptable. I enjoyed that Ms. Fletcher explored both sides of the "you are my mate and it is fate" view on instant love and played it against "you are so good to me, make me feel great and we might have something here". Friendships, loyalty, kindness, love and grace all come into play and I loved it.