Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

Enchanted (Woodcutter Sisters, #1)

by Alethea Kontis

It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.

When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland--and a man Sunday's family despises.

The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past--and hers?

Reviewed by Terri M. LeBlanc on

2 of 5 stars

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Overwhelmed. Like the main character in the novel, Sunday, I was overwhelmed by everything going on in this novel. There was too much going on...too many characters, too many fairy tales mashed together, too many unexplained character and world histories...that I struggled to keep it all straight.

The world was very beautifully rendered and the characters were compelling, but with all the twists and turns, forcing me to reread entire pages, I was really challenged to finish this novel. I wish the author would have scaled back a bit and given me a chance to get to know the characters and the world a bit more be throwing the everything and the kitchen sink into the plot.

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