Books by Diane Zahler
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review 1: This is a sort of fractured fairy tale, in a world where Sleeping Beauty woke up from her curse and her daughter is also cursed at birth. Aurora and Luna are two princesses who don't understand why they are never allowed to leave their castle, and why there is nothing sharp to be...
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review 1: Princess of the wild swans strikes me as an old fairytale, though I had never heard it before. The Princess has many older brothers and when her father returns with a new wife, she does not seem at all pleased with this. Soon enough her brothers disappear. It does not take the pr...
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review 1: I thought this was an excellent book! I love how Diane completely changed the traditional version of this classic fairy tale. It's just really cool because you're just not expecting it to be that unique! It's not at all like the original so you don't feel like you're just reading...
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review 1: While the story does include a clever usage of the Princess and the Pea tale, it's not about that at all, which disappoints me as princess tests are very intriguing to me. The story is almost excessively straightforward: hear a rumor about being sold off as a servant, run away; ...