I've had a lot of caffeine tonight, and THIS IS JUST MY OPINION.īasically, the main word I'd use to describe Enchanted is bizarre. And the bad outweighs the very little good.īefore reading this review, please keep 3 things in mind:ģ. Here's what I found: Rumpelstiltskin, The Frog Prince, 12 Dancing Princesses, Princess and the Pea, Rapunzel, Old Woman and the Shoe, Jack and the Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella. It was the most fun to find fairytale references. I guess I just felt that there was no purpose to much any of the stuff in here and, if there was, it certainly wasn't explained. It was all the stupid worthless godmothers. Why did the Woodcutter family all hate the prince and his family? They didn't cause ANY of the problems. Jack and Thursday's fate and stories are mentioned several times for no apparent reason.

Why did Rumbold 'remember' Thursday cutting his arm with a knife in the shape of a 'T' and then, later, there's nothing there?Īnd if that was a dream, how did he recognize Jolicoer? What's up with Rumbold's memories? They seemed important but we never really get to see what happened to him.

Jack and his story that we never really get.

Why was Rumbold's mother(as I understood it) whispering 'Kill me' in Rumbold's head? I wonder why.' and then it's never brought up again. Why was it mentioned that the villager's eyes were violet and Sunday is 'Wow. More than half the time, I was just utterly confused. Why couldn't we have their story?Īs the story progresses, you begin to realize that things are never explained, don't make any sense, or just make you head smoke trying to pull a semblance of sense of it. Especially Thursday, the Pirate Queen and her husband, The Dread Pirate Roberts. Ugh.Īnd then the fact that the side characters are so much more interesting than the main two. Then enter the fact that Rumbold, back when he was man, was a slimeball, traipsing around with every available and not-so-available woman around. But they can never have more because he is doomed to a life as a frog. Sunday is besotted by this creature of loveliness that listens and seems to care for her. But, as we already knew, the frog is an enchanted prince. The prose is nice and descriptions are lovely.įirst off, Sunday Woodcutter meets a frog in the woods and INSTANTLY decides to tell this frog her life story and all about her family and their troubles.

Enchanted by alethea kontis