Patricia C. Wrede
Paperback | Pages: 1056 pages Rating: 4.48 | 9653 Users | 410 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Dealing with Dragons / Searching for Dragons / Calling on Dragons / Talking to Dragons |
| ISBN: | 0152050523 (ISBN13: 9780152050528) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1-4 |
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This series is absolutely one of the fantasy genre's treasures! It's wonderfully light-hearted and humorous; the author revels in puncturing any number of fairy-tale conventions. Princess Cimorene, for instance, isn't kidnapped and enslaved by a dragon --she voluntarily becomes housekeeper for the Dragon King to escape an arranged marriage. (And the draconian king is female; dragons use that title for monarchs of either gender to keep things "simple.") But though her main characters often don't do the conventionally "proper" thing, they always try to do the genuinely right thing.Practicing Roman Catholic Wrede [pronounced "Reedy":] writes good clean fantasy (both serious and humorous), free of bad language, unwholesome sexual content, or gratuitous violence. (Here, for instance, Cimorene and her cohorts deal with dastardly wizards simply by melting them into goo with soap and water, like the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz --but they always eventually regenerate.) Her work is informed by an equalitarian feminism, in the best sense of the word, which is not at all anti-male. IMO, she's one of the very best fantasy writers of our generation. Readers who like this series should explore her other work; I can personally recommend The Book of Enchantments and Caught in Crystal.
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| Title | : | The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1-4) |
| Author | : | Patricia C. Wrede |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1056 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2003 by Hmh Books for Young Readers (first published 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Dragons. Childrens. Adventure. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.48 From 9653 Users | 410 ReviewsCommentary About Books The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1-4)
This is a series for people who like fantasy with a dash of humor and a strong female heroine who is perfectly willing to tell the slightly stupid handsome prince he can kindly throw himself off a cliff. Add some dragons, a few wicked wizard, one very forward thinking witch, a floating blue donkey with a 6-foot wing span, and an entire kindgom made of magical threads and you might begin to understand the stories. Wrede has a way of pulling in a few old fairy tale favorites while forging a storyExactly what I was looking for in a book right now. These four books were simple, yet joyful. I can't believe I didn't discover these when I was younger, I know my teenage self would have read them over and over. Wrede somehow manages to walk the line of the classic fairy tale, and turn it into something new, even while following all the comfortable old rules and story lines. The portrayal of the quirks and egos of cats is perhaps one of my favorites I have ever read, and as a worshiper of the
As a child, I know I re-read this series several times, and really loved it! I did recently re-read them as an adult, and they were more boring than I remember. It's hard for me to decide how to rate them, because child-me absolutely adored them! So, should I rate them based on that opinion, or my opinion of them now? Child-me would give them 5 stars, and adult-me gives them a 3. So do with that what you will. Cimorene escapes her palace to live with Dragons, so that she doesn't have to continue
I just love this series. Patricia has such an imaginative way of giving shape to magic. Fire magic, Enchanted Forest magic, dragon magic, and wizard magic--each with their own presence. I also love how each book in the four-part series is written from the perspective of a different person. I have series that I'm working on where I might actually try the same approach...Patricia's other books on magic (Mairelon the Magician and The Magician's Ward, respectively) have an even different shape to
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles consist, in chronological but not publishing order, of Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons and Talking to Dragons. Talking to Dragons was written first, Dealing with Dragons was written as a prequel, and the other two books were written in sequence to fill in the gap between the two. I'm treating them as a unit, since I purchased them as an ebook omnibus and basically read them as one.The Chronicles take place in a fairy tale world that
i loved these books!!!!! you don't have to read the first one to understand the second or third or fourth one. they are hilarious books with a lot of magic in them. they aren't that serious, but that is what makes them fun to read!!!!!
This book is the kind of book I wish I could go back and hand to my nine-year-old self so she could grow up loving it. It has been instantly added to my list of all time favorite books because it is FANTASTIC! The characters are extremely likable and practical and just awesome. It makes you root for everyone except the bad guys and you always want them to fail. I also love how a lot of the worldbuilding is based on classic fairytale tropes and brief descriptions. Cimorene is the princess we all
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