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A beautiful retelling of the Norse tale, East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
3.5/5
Read it as a fairy tale and you will be satisfied. I did not look for depth and dimension in the characters, and was satisfied. Jessica Day George did a fine job of staying true to the story as Abjorsen originally had it, while flourishing it with impressive and thoughtful details that would take the fairy tale to a whole a new level.
Jessica Day George's modern retelling of the famous, as-old-as-time tale, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" is more than satisfactory. People seeking out ...more
Read it as a fairy tale and you will be satisfied. I did not look for depth and dimension in the characters, and was satisfied. Jessica Day George did a fine job of staying true to the story as Abjorsen originally had it, while flourishing it with impressive and thoughtful details that would take the fairy tale to a whole a new level.
Jessica Day George's modern retelling of the famous, as-old-as-time tale, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" is more than satisfactory. People seeking out ...more
May 25, 2012
The Winter Rose
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It's no great secret that I adore Jessica Day-George's writing. I find her to be a wonderful craftsman of fairytale and folklore retellings - she does a great job at keeping the heart of the story while enriching it with in-depth characters and flavoring it with her own details. In other words, she helps readers fall in love with classic tales all over again, not by rehashing them, but by making them her own without relying on this modern fad for making something "edgy" - something I deeply appr
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Not terrible, but rather childish. Closer to middle grade than young adult. I like fairy tale re-tellings, and as far as those go, this was decent but nothing special.
Basically an expanded adaptation of the fairy tale "East of the Sun, West of the Moon." I used to love that fairy tale, and I thought the book did the tale justice.
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Dec 03, 2009
Pamela Lloyd
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Shellie (Layers of Thought)
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Gaijinmama
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Jun 26, 2010
Sarai
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Aug 19, 2010
Literary Ames
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Sep 02, 2011
Michaela
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Julia
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Jan 15, 2012
Lisa
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Reem
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Dec 21, 2012
Katie
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it was amazing
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May 23, 2017
Carrie
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