Book Review: Entwined by Heather Dixon

Entwined by Heather Dixon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is a beautiful retelling of the story The Twelve Dancing Princesses, a story I heard of, but never read before. In the beginning of the book, the Mother dies while giving birth to the 12th princess, Lily, and the girls has been into morning, but then they found a magical portal, where it lead to a ballroom...with a very handsome Keeper.

The girls go to that place every single night, keeping it away from their father the King, who locks them away in a room so they can morn. The girls hate it so much that they honestly loved going to their speical place to dance. But then one day, they realized that a watch was missing. So the oldest one, Azelea, goes back to ask the Keeper if he seen it...and he does...in fact, he kept it. Azelea got mad and swore that she and her sisters will never return. But there was something...how can I put it...odd...he said something about the girls not coming back he'll do something that rubbed me the wrong way.

Outside the magical portal, gentlemen left and right are trying to win some of the girls' hands, but Bramble don't care at all about marriage, Clover's in love with the Prime Minister, and Azelea fell for Mr. Brandford-slowly, though.

Close to the end (the part that ticked me off to no end), the Keeper came out of the magical portal and wanted to kill the King..and he didn't (ha ha) and trapped the girls in magical mirrors. The King and Azelea broke the mirrors and freed the girls and fought the Keeper, who used his magic to be Azelea, But that didn't work and the Keeper went away, never to be seen again.

But I liked the ending of the book, the girls got their happy ending and are building the relationship back with their father the King.

This book had some twists and turns, including the promise Azelea made on her Mother's deathbed, promising that she'll watch over the girls and the King, which was awesome. And the dances in the book were beuatiful-made me cry in the inside.

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Books I'm Currently Reading...Like Now. Seriously, Now.

Hey y'all!

It's 2015....like holy crap, where have 2014 been?! Though I already did a post on my thoughts on the New Year, it's time for me to do a little book haul of the books I've gotten last night from Barnes and Nobles and also the books I'm reading right now.

Books I'm Reading Right now

1. The Great Hunt: A Wheel of Time novel by Robert Jordan
2. A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker
4. Awakened: A House of Night Novel by P.C. and Kristin Cast
5. Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop
6. Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
7. Entwined by Heather Dixon
8. Cinder: A Lunar Chronicles novel by Marissa Meyer

Happy New Year!

Hey y'all!

I wanted to do this post night but I got distracted by my new video game, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (in which I played for two bloody days and about to play some more afterword) but as I was saying, 2014 was the year of me being busy and reading all the time. From reading Game of Thrones to getting mad at a fallen angel who snapped a High Priestess' human consort neck, 2014 has been an amazing year.

Now that it's 2015, I want to look ahead, not forward. And since I'm currently on Barnes and Nobles (like...my bookstore for almost everything I read and want to read) I'm making a little 'to read' list in my head and I thought I'd share them all here with y'all...

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
2. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
3. the rest of the House of Night Series by P.C. and Kristin Cast
4. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
5. Claymore Series by Norihiro Yagi
6. Rise of the King by R.A. Salvatore (if you haven't read the first book of this series or any other, GO READ IT)
7. Alice in Zombieland series by Gena Showalter (I don't read about zombies that much, but...)
8. The rest of a Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
9. Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire series) by Mark Lawrence

So that is all the books on my list right now-and I might even write my own story too when I get a chance-I might even start tonight :) So happy new years y'all and I hope it's awesome and amazing like hopefully mine would be.