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The Princess Of Dhagabad (2012)

by Anna Kashina(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0983832005 (ISBN13: 9780983832003)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dragonwell Publishing

series

The Spirits of the Ancient Sands

review 1: "The Princess of Dhagabad" surprised me with its engaging story and lovable characters--particularly as I picked it up for free.Despite my love for the story and the characters of Hasan and the princess, I cannot give this story any higher than a 3-star review due to the grammar issues throughout the book. The story often makes abrupt perspective changes (from princess to Hasan and back) without properly setting up for them. Yes, the idea was to slowly let you realize who is speaking in italics, but for the first few chapters, I thought her dead grandmother was talking to us in italics instead of Hasan due to lacking even a guarded hinting towards it. Intended or not, it came off as sloppy at first and heavy-handed later.Also, there were missing words and blatant grammatic... moreal errors throughout the work. Though they were not nearly as abundant as what is normally seen in books downloaded on free giveaways, it truly is depressing that someone who can so wonderfully craft such lovable and wonderful characters cannot bother to find an editor with even a college student's grasp of grammar to read over her work. My hope and prayer is that her second book is reviewed by someone with a better grasp of tense and of word order, and that it's done by someone with an eye for missing words.
review 2: I received this through the GoodReads Giveaways. This was a pleasant read and had definite leanings to the "Arabian Nights" style of tales. On her twelfth birthday, the princess is given a bottle left to her by her grandmother. Imagine her surprise when out comes a djinn to obey her every wish! The djinn becomes her constant companion to shower her with delights, help her education and protect her from the machinations of the court. The book tells the tale of the life of the princess, the viewpoint of the djinn and we are also given flashbacks of the djinn's journey to his present day status.I should have thoroughly enjoyed this book since it is one of the types of subject matter I adore.I even saved it for a rare day that I had no interruption so I could devour it in peace.Unfortunately, this book just did not live up to my expectations. I was left restless and irritated. I did not find the princess to be very likable, the other characters were sort of bland, and even the djinn did not make me wish to have or be one. It just felt sort of generic.There is one scene involving the sultan and his new concubine that absolutely made no sense in the story. Maybe it was thrown in to serve as a set-up for book two, but then it should have been in the epilogue, but not in the middle of the current story. The cover art is gorgeous. less

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