Looks interesting in a weird sort of way....know what I mean, Vern?

Going traveling in my "Third Time is a Charm" BookBox!

Took from Nattabee's Third Time's a Charm Bookbox!

2/1/11 - I finished this today and thought it was absolutely wonderful! It had everything a good story should have: Romance, a quest, a mentor, magic, and a happy ending! The main character is thrown on an impossible quest where she encounters fun characters and has interesting encounters.

This was such a cute story! Sending it on to other future readers! I'm putting this into Dancingdogs' Weather Bookbox!

I'm taking this book from dancing-dog's weather/water/seasons bookbox. It looks like an entertaining variation on the fairy-tale princess/quest tropes - and there's a polar bear on the cover, too! {grin}

Later: I enjoy fairy-tale retellings, but they're not all created equal, and I admit I found this one a bit... wordy?... for my taste. Not that I mind a nice long story, but this one seemed awfully repetitive at times, with characters repeating the how-we-got-here details at length, etc. I suppose some of that's meant to reflect the style of a storytelling people, where tales would be repeated often, to impress the details on everyone's memory. But in the form of the book, it often felt heavy-handed. That aside, the story's lively enough, with plenty of questing and a romance that takes the long way to the happy ending {wry grin}.

I left this book on York St. not far from Chapel St. at about 2; hope the finder enjoys it!