Reviews of both books to come.)Īs you’ve probably gathered by now, the Woodcutter sisters are named for the days of the week, and their natures follow the traditional rhyme: Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go, Friday’s child is loving and giving Friday stars in Dearest, released this month. I want to know more about Trix, the Woodcutters’ changeling son, for instance, and Saturday is clearly destined for her own book. I loved the whole book, from Sunday and Rumbold to the secondary characters, who are less developed but equally interesting. Even the good isn’t always what it seems or wants to be: Sunday’s mother’s magic is more curse than blessing, for instance, and the fairy godmother can’t always step in to save the heroine. There is darkness here, as in all good fairytales, and it’s not glossed over.
Magic in this world doesn’t follow rules, it just is, which only adds to the sense of mystery and enchantment. Her main characters, Sunday and Rumbold, have more depth and the plot has far more complexity than in a traditional fairytale, but Kontis still maintains the fairytale tone and appeal. Kontis’s prose is sometimes lyrical, sometimes matter-of-fact, and shot through with flashes of humor and beauty it always seems to suit the scene or moment. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past-and hers?Įnchanted is a wonderful and wildly original reframing of several fairytales, stitched together into a tapestry that reminded me at various times of Patricia McKillip, Shannon Hale, and Jessica Day George. The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland-and a man Sunday’s family despises. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.
It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, YA (Young Adult) Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 2012
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