Enchantment
This is the story of what happens after Sleeping Beauty awakens and how her Happily, or maybe Not-So-Happily, Ever After begins…This book was really well written, with a fabulous plot full of imagination and wonderful world building. Enchantment takes you on a creative journey into the world of Russian & Jewish folklore. With an abundance of angst, good prevailing over evil, politics, religion, a little romance and some action at the end.
I liked the retelling of the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty; Card gave it a unique twist where modern world 1990’s collides with the 900’s.
Unfortunately I found myself struggling to read it with out falling asleep due to the boring characters. I didn’t connect at all with Ivan or Katerina and found their characters to be unbelievable & uninteresting. Not to mention all the inner monologue & character interaction was annoying; She thinks I’m pathetic, despises me, and pities me, blah blah blah. Some of the side characters were a bit more interesting but not by much.
I found that every few chapters was a teaser, you think its finally getting exciting then nope, nada, back to square one. Also, a lot of scenes could have been cut out in my opinion, and some were just down right dumb.
Take out the characters and swap them for some new, exciting ones and it’d be great! Although everyone else in the group really liked this read so you may want to check it out for yourself.
