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juushikaTitle: Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles 1)
Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 (1990)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 220
Total Page Count: 532,350
Text Number: 1949
Read Because: mentioned in this list of "rewire your brain" MG/YA novels, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A princess quite sick of princessing runs off to be kidnapped by dragons instead. This is the magnum opus of "not like other girls," and I'm not mad about it. The protagonist retains a fair bit of her own character, it turns out that many others aren't like other girls either, and the occasional other-girls skill proves useful; for the purposes of wish fulfillment & projection, as MG/YA does so well, this is delightful, with satisfying, speedy plotting and the sort of ultra-fairytale setting and lively voice that reminds me of Levine's Ella Enchanted. I'll look into the sequels, and if I'd read this as a kid the desire to live with Kazul would have been fierce.
Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 (1990)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 220
Total Page Count: 532,350
Text Number: 1949
Read Because: mentioned in this list of "rewire your brain" MG/YA novels, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A princess quite sick of princessing runs off to be kidnapped by dragons instead. This is the magnum opus of "not like other girls," and I'm not mad about it. The protagonist retains a fair bit of her own character, it turns out that many others aren't like other girls either, and the occasional other-girls skill proves useful; for the purposes of wish fulfillment & projection, as MG/YA does so well, this is delightful, with satisfying, speedy plotting and the sort of ultra-fairytale setting and lively voice that reminds me of Levine's Ella Enchanted. I'll look into the sequels, and if I'd read this as a kid the desire to live with Kazul would have been fierce.
