“Princess of the Silver Woods” is a fine follow-up to Jessica’s previous books, however, I would recommend rereading the first two books before taking this one on. Petunia’s carriage is attacked and she’s taken captive by the bandit-wolves, only to find out there’s more to them than meets the eye.Ĭould it be that the elderly woman she regards almost as a grandmother could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
When Petunia is invited to visit the Grand Duchess Volenskaya at her Westfalian estate, the young princess jumps at the chance.īut to get to the estate, Petunia must pass through a forest that’s been having problems with two-legged wolves as of late. Now, she’s grown into a determined young woman. She was barely a toddler when she first visited the King Under Stone’s palace.
Petunia is the youngest of King Gregor’s 12 daughters. This week, Jessica introduced a third look at the family of dancing sisters in “Princess of the Silver Woods. Jessica followed up that success with “Princess of Glass,” which followed one of the twelve sisters, Poppy, and her experiences within the “Cinderella” fairy tale. In 2009, Jessica Day George introduced the world twelve sisters with a serious dancing problem in “Princess of the Midnight Ball.” The retelling of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” gained an immediate following. I read a remake of Rebecca.a YA version and did not really love that one either so I suppose I may just not be the target audience.Ĭheck out the cover art on this one though.“ PRINCESS OF THE SILVER WOODS (Twelve Dancing Princesses) ,” by Jessica Day George, Bloomsbury USA Children’s, Dec. I have found though that the more remakes I read the less I like.
My feeling is the story in and of itself is so fascinating but it IS dark and I thought it might be fun reading a few remakes. I really wanted a dark adult book that retold this story and this was a slow moving YA that may have become darker but I just lacked the determination top keep going. Not having read the book in its entirety I do not know whether it picked up but I got a bit impatient with this one. I found there was not really alot going on, not at least when I stopped reading which was over 50 pages in. Plus, I read a good deal in and nothing much had happened. My issue with this one is it is really slow moving and felt very YA. My issue is I had thought it would be a darker little tale then it was. I gave it a three even though I did not read to the end. ― Jessica Day George, Princess of the Midnight Ball "Keeping one's hands clean – maintaining one's innocence.
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