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Enchantment
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This was a great retelling of Sleeping Beauty. I love anything that has to do with Russia so that was an added bonus! When I was learning Russian my teacher told me about Baba Yaga (this scary witch woman from old Russian folk tales) and she is in this book as a character so that was pretty interesting.
Also, there are a lot of times I was pissed at Katarina for the shit she put Ivan through. If I were him I would've just kicked her in the shin and freaking booked it back to the future. Nevertheless, I still liked the book and would recommend it to most people. There's a lot of crude jokes in it (which I though was funny considering I assumed(wrongly) that this was an Ender's Game-type young adult book of Card's) but you can overlook most of them.
Audiobook caveats: I dozed off a couple times during the Baba Yaga sections of the book-->The woman reading her sections was good at the narrative voice and the witch but her voice as the bear was ridiculous. It sounded like what my mom would sound like if she tried to talk like a bear...ridiculous.
Also, there are a lot of times I was pissed at Katarina for the shit she put Ivan through. If I were him I would've just kicked her in the shin and freaking booked it back to the future. Nevertheless, I still liked the book and would recommend it to most people. There's a lot of crude jokes in it (which I though was funny considering I assumed(wrongly) that this was an Ender's Game-type young adult book of Card's) but you can overlook most of them.
Audiobook caveats: I dozed off a couple times during the Baba Yaga sections of the book-->The woman reading her sections was good at the narrative voice and the witch but her voice as the bear was ridiculous. It sounded like what my mom would sound like if she tried to talk like a bear...ridiculous.
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August 1, 2008
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December 7, 2008
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Jun 30, 2016 10:51PM
I read the book first and now love returning to it as an audiobook. I love the voice narrators (some of the same used for other OSC audiobooks such as Speaker of the Dead and Xenocide). I often set my sleep timer for a half an hour and fall asleep listening to this book, only to rewind it to where I think I left off the next morning for my workout or drive. But it's worth it--soothing; and as someone who specializes in world fairy tales, this book is a treat!
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I love the audio readers for the Ender series, especially Stefan Rudnicki. I totally do the falling asleep to a book and waking up to rewind. You are not alone!
