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Elsa is almost 8 years old and is close to her grandmother who tells her fairy stories about the Land of Almost Awake. After Elsa's grandma dies Elsa is tasked with delivering a series of letters from her grandma to various people so her grandma can apologize to them. I like Elsa and loved some of the secondary characters, especially the Wurse. I also appreciated the humor throughout the book. There were a bit too many fairy tales for my taste. overall another enjoyable and heartwarming book by
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I love the cover and the title. And the book description was sufficiently intriguing. Elsa is 7 years old and very close to her grandmother. Just before she died, however, she left Elsa (a Knight in their imaginary dream land) a quest: To deliver all her letters and tell the recipients that her grandmother says sorry.
It begins quite interestingly though at halfway point, I started to get a bit bored and felt that it just kept going on and on; too many fairy tales. I struggled trying to keep the ...more
It begins quite interestingly though at halfway point, I started to get a bit bored and felt that it just kept going on and on; too many fairy tales. I struggled trying to keep the ...more
Everything I keep trying to write here is that there were lots of elements here that I wanted to love, but they never quite broke through to greatness. There's a precocious child narrator that manages to be endearing not annoying. There's a fairy tale theme, though it never quite felt magical. There's a wild and wacky grandmother, but seen mostly in memory rather than current adventure. There are oddball characters all living in one rooming house. But somehow all these individual pieces never ma
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After reading the warm-hearted A Man Called Ove from Backman I was expecting to like this book. I was also expecting a bit of a slow start, but this book had me smiling from the first page. I laughed, I cried and I cheered for a super-hero grandma!
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Jun 24, 2017
Lorna
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3 1/2 stars. This has got to be the craziest grandmother I've ever encountered in fiction or real life. Some parts were funny, some were touching, but many of the fairytales within the story were yawn worthy.
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Dec 11, 2022
Slayermel
marked it as to-read
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