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Enchantment
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On the surface this book sounds great. Fairytales, fantasy, basis in actual folklore type stuff; it's even decently written.
However I found the characters so unlikable that the story was ruined for me. The main character abandons a fiancee that he was very happy with...*until* he met the princess. How..quaint and realistic. I hope you can detect the sarcasm. The mother is bordering on cruel to the previous fiancee. I do think the personalities and relationship, for the most part, were interpreted well and resembled realism. I just didn't care.
The early events in the book made it nearly impossible for me to appreciate any of the remaining story, because the characters were so reprehensible to me, I didn't really care what happened to them.
As most other reviewers have said it is a wonderful fantasy/fairytale romance and I would not have even minded the less appealing qualities of the characters if they had been used to show dynamics and growth. Instead I was asked to accept those faults as traits to be admired.
In the end, despite the sweet, though simple narrative and the broad range of topics explored, the story just fell flat.
However I found the characters so unlikable that the story was ruined for me. The main character abandons a fiancee that he was very happy with...*until* he met the princess. How..quaint and realistic. I hope you can detect the sarcasm. The mother is bordering on cruel to the previous fiancee. I do think the personalities and relationship, for the most part, were interpreted well and resembled realism. I just didn't care.
The early events in the book made it nearly impossible for me to appreciate any of the remaining story, because the characters were so reprehensible to me, I didn't really care what happened to them.
As most other reviewers have said it is a wonderful fantasy/fairytale romance and I would not have even minded the less appealing qualities of the characters if they had been used to show dynamics and growth. Instead I was asked to accept those faults as traits to be admired.
In the end, despite the sweet, though simple narrative and the broad range of topics explored, the story just fell flat.
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January 1, 2008
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January 18, 2008
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Apr 25, 2009 11:41AM
Exactly! I really hated Katerina because she was basically a Mary Sue (although most people don't think so :( ) and I felt really bad for Ruth when she was dumped.... I guess I just root for the underdog.
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I think everyone felt bad for Ruthie UNTIL she goes into her tirade about Ivan. I mean, she manipulated him from the beginning and obviously didn't like alot of the things that made him who he was. They would have had a terrible marriage because she was only in love with him on the surface.
These are the same issues I had. I feel like he ended up throwing in stuff about Ruthie not really loving Ivan just because he worried people would hate Katerina too much. It just didn't fit.
Aw, darn. I can't get behind a story, not matter how amazing the plot or beautiful the prose, if I don't like the characters. Maybe I'll give this a pass and pick it up when I don't have anything else to read.
