The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Amaranth Enchantment is a fairytale style fantasy. It has some of the familiar features of a fairytale, but is not simply a rewriting of a traditional tale. The heroine is a formerly wealthy orphan now basically a slave to her uncle's wife. There's also a godmother type figure and a prince, a royal curse - and even a mysterious goat. But these familiar elements are entwined in a new way to make a completely original tale.
I liked it. There was some interesting stuff in there. But unfortunately the romance was a case of insta-love. In a fairytale, how the romance is done is important. If the two characters fall in love at first sight, what is left to tell? It becomes an unexplained, magical event - which might be true of the old tales, but there's a whole novel here to do it more justice.
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