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Sarah Beth Durst is a first time author. She was signing her book, 'Into the Wild', at a local Harry Potter event. Since I'd seen her at a recent sf convention, I knew she was One of Us. One underlying premise is: what would the fairy-tale girls and princesses be like if allowed to grow up into a modern woman. In the story, Julie lives with her mother Zel and her brother Boots. She knows all how the fairy tale characters broke out of their stories in the past and are now living in our society. S
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A brilliant and amazing debut novel! Durst turns Grimms' fairy tales (the real and true, rather gruesome ones) on their heads when Rapunzel's daughter has to retrap the Wild- which forces everyone it absorbs to enact a fairy tale over and over- after it escapes from its prison under her bed!
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Very clever!! Sarah Beth Durst has created an original setting, where the world of fairy tales is shrunk to fit, trapped, underneath the bed of Julie, Rapunzel's daughter. Fairy tale characters have escaped and are trying to live in the twentieth century, free as long as "the Wild" stays captive under Julie's bed. But when someone deliberately releases the Wild, and Rapunzel and everyone else Julie loves is taken back into their fairy tales, she must venture into the Wild herself to try to put t
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This was an enjoyable story with a fun premise - Rapunzel has helped the fairy tale characters escape from the Wild and stop the endless and terrible cycle of reliving the same stories over and over. The Wild is now a small, contained patch living under her daughter Julie's bed - although it still does things like steal Julie's sneakers and turn them into seven league boots. But someone makes a wish, the Wild comes back, and now Julie has to try and rescue her mother and all the others.
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Kinda weird, but fun.
I liked this fantasy set in Massachusetts in which fairy tale characters come to life and want their stories to end so they can be free. Just as this author did, I spent hours reading Andrew Lang and Virginia Haviland and others so I enjoyed every allusion. However, I think modern girls only know Disney, so this may not really work on them. Without that knowledge, I think the story might come across as disjointed.
A nice light read that weaves together scads of fairy tale threads into one coherent and entertaining story. A good coming-of-age book for tweens who enjoy fractured retellings of fairy tales. Looking forward to the sequel coming in June 2008.
A cute, fun read, perfect for all those who love fairy tales, and are well versed in them. One of my favorite parts of this book was picking out what fairy tale reference was what!
Aug 08, 2008
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Girl protagonist. Blurb by Patricia C. Wrede.
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