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Rapunzel Untangled (2013)

by Cindy C. Bennett(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1462111564 (ISBN13: 9781462111565)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Cedar Fort, Inc.

review 1: First of all, this was adorable. And clean. It was just good, clean, grinning throughout the first half of the book, fun. I mean, it's a Rapunzel retelling, right? Set in the modern day. Hard to go wrong. Only a couple of things were weird. I'll get to that.Rapunzel has only had contact with one person for her entire life: her mother. She is completely sheltered and locked away from everything. So we know she's going to be very naive and ignorant about the world. But she's Rapunzel, so it's endearing. Fane, though. I don't know. Here's a teenage guy who's grown up in the information age with all its warnings about technology and internet safety and whatever else. I'm expected to believe that a random unknown person requests his friendship on facebook, he accepts, then agre... morees to meet said random person without any kind of real information or even a picture. Sounds unsafe, to say the least. And dumb. And then there's the whole thing about Rapunzel having never met anyone else at all and falling in love with the one person she knows besides her mother. Real healthy. And then they're both pretty cavalier about Rapunzel's health when they sneak out and go places where other people and their germs will be. They're all, "I could die from this but let's go do it anyway." I guess I understand the mentality but that doesn't make it not dumb.But it was cute and I did grin through the entire first half of the novel. And then it got weird. Lots of creepy witchcraftery and seances and just dark, weird stuff. It was handled in a lighter way, you might say, so that the overall feel of the book didn't get too dark but it was just weird. Maybe a bit cheesy. And then the ending made me roll my eyes a lot. Rapunzel is naive, yes, but she just did something really stupid at the end there. And if you found out something really terrible about your mother and then confirmed that terrible thing would you not just run away and call the cops? Why did Fane not suggest that? Then we could have avoided the weird supernatural ending there. Anyway, it was a fast, clean, sweet read and I would have no qualms recommending it to anyone. Sexual Content: None (some kissing)Language: NoneViolence: Moderate (just the final scenes at the end, there)Drugs/Alcohol: None
review 2: IF YOU LOVE FAIRY TALE RETELLINGS AND REALISTIC FICTION BOOKS, READ THIS FOR SUGGESTIONS!!I loved this book!! Rapunzel knows some things where I have no idea how she knows it, and she doesn't know things I've always taken for granted, that makes it fun. For example she didn't know what MnM's were, or pizza, or breadsticks, when Fane was bringing things over. Also, I find it odd she didn't figure out she didn't have that disease. I mean she went outside, kissed Fane, went to a party, and went into the greenhouse! I also didn't see how she didn't wonder what was beyond her door. And while she didn't know what pizza was, or lol, or the other meaning of hot, or ttyl, or any other slang, she knew what certain things were, although I can't tell you what because I saw the things in the book and thought about it, then was lost in another page. I saw that kind of thing that was a bit unrealistic, but overall the book was AMAZING!!! I loved how modern it was and flew through it, not able to read another book the day I finished it because I was lost in my thoughts. I used to dismiss fairy tale retellings because of Disney movies, which in my opinion are juvenile, but I loved them after I read certain books. I started to notice them after I had read The Candymakers by Wendy Mass. I looked for books by her and found A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass also. Then I really looked for books by her and found the twice upon a time series, with a Rapunzel book ( which I adored❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ) , a sleeping beauty book and a beauty and the beast one. I loved them, although they were only about 100 pages. Then I read Half Upon A Time by James Riley, and the other two books in the series, Twice Upon a Time, and Once Upon The End. Now I'm always looking for fairy tale retellings and realistic fiction books like A Mango Shaped Space and one book I want to read, Finding Ruby Starling by Karen Rivers. Now, back to Rapunzel. While there were some unrealistic things, the book was captivating. less

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