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Title: Once upon a Waltz (Zebra Regency Romance) by Carola Dunn, K. Hocker, J. Lansdowne ISBN: 0-8217-6797-6 Publisher: Zebra Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good...If This Is What You Are Looking For
Comment: Let me tell you about this book. It contains three fairy tales that are set in regency England. They are silly romantic fluff and exactly what I enjoy passing a lazy afternoon with. A lot of people didn't like this book simply because they were looking for a regency romance and this, besides it setting, is not really. Fantasy lovers and fairy tales fantatics, of which I am proudly one, will be far more likely to love this book. Check out Once Upon a Time and Once Upon A Kiss by these same three authors also...those two are slightly better.
Rating: 3
Summary: Nothing to stress you out!! But not superb..
Comment: I give this book only 3 stars because, although the story line of all 3 stories are interesting, sometimes they gave me this-is-kind-of-silly feeling. The frist story, Firebird, is about Reynata, an orphan girl who had big secret of shape shifting to a red fox on the full moon. As long as she's not a 'whole' human, she couldn't get married...specially to Lord Drake, the only man of her dream. The beginning of this story is quite interesting when each character was introduced. However, feeling between two main characters developed in such an extremely short period of time..too short for even a novellas and a bit quite not-impressive ending. The second one, The dancing shoes, this is my most favorite in all three. The plot came from familiar fairy tale telling about a group of young girls who found a secret passage way in their finishing school to the prince music room and a young headmistress who followed these girl into the passage way and ended up finding the love she always longed for.. This story is cute and funny, in my opinion although I think, it's kind of too short and ended while I was wishing for more, It's the best of all three. The last story, King Thrushbead, is the most silly one. However, it's very funny. The story is about a young Lord Elias who tried to court his dream lady, Lady Artemis. However, after 10 long years, Lady Artemis was not as sweet as she used to be. And our hero suspected that much that she was brainwashed or under some kind of spell. So being a descendant to a good wizard, Elias tried to performed a spell to transform his beloved lady back to her sweetself.. Unfortunately, he's not a talented wizard as he thought he was... While Elias'mother tried to undo all trouble our hero made, both Artemis and Elias learned to care for each other... and finally, 'They all live happily ever after'... So if you think you can tolerate a bit of sillyness and don't mind fairy tale based romance, you are good to go with this book. But don't expect, very romantic, very passionate stories from this book. The good point of this book in my opinion is, it's stress free!! Although not 'really really good' one. I think, I enjoy it in some degree..
Rating: 5
Summary: a reader
Comment: This book is a great deal of fun. It consists of new fairy tales, written in the Regency period. The stories are clearly taken from familiar tales, but changed with many fun twists. Light but charming stories. The rewrite of fairy tales gives this book a sophistication that many regency books lack. I've shared this book with several friends and no one wanted to put it down before finishing it. Well worth your time to read.
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