East
by Edith Pattou
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Author: Edith PattouEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN: 0152045635
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
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Book Review: "A Magical Epic of Love, Betrayal, and Loss"...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful book based on the Norway version of Beauty and the Beast. It is the story of Ebba Rose and her family, a family that inludes six other brothers and sisters, a mapmaking father, and a highly superstitious mother with a secret to hide... They all live in the old Norway countryside working as poor farmers who barely have enough to get by. Then, disaster strikes when Sara, the third eldest child, becomes deathly sick. The family dispairs of ever nursing the girl back to health when, one night, a talking white bear darkens their doorway and claims that he will make Sara well again and give them the life of wealth and ease that they've always dreamed of. But, in return their youngest daughter,Rose, will have to leave her family to live with him. Seemingly forever. Rose, unlike her family, has always dreamed of an adventure. Mainly, to travel the world. She accepts the bear's offer to give up the life and family she's always known and loved to save her sister. Thus beginning a fantastic journey when she travels to a castle embedded into a mountain. While there she comes to know possibly love the white bear she has come to live with. But all is not as it seems. As you might have guessed the white bear is truly a man imprisoned to take on the form of a white bear durning the day but is changed back into a man at night. In order to break the curse put on him by a cruel but beautiful creature and her father he must have a maiden live with him for one year, of her own free will of course, who never sets eyes upon his human face. And if he can't? He will have to marry the creature who put this curse on him in the first place. But before the year is up Rose DOES look upon his face one night and the man who she had come to know and understand is suddenly ripped from her without a trace. The only clue he tells her before he disapears is that he is going to place she can never follow him to. A place East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon. So Rose must travel to the ends of the Earth to rescue this man she's only known for so little a time and to set things right. This book was absoulutely amazing and was the first Beauty and the Beast Retellling for young adults I read and was hooked. The author Edith Pattou uses an interesting narrating approach: ever chapter is narrated by a different character. Some people have found this confusing or boring because sometimes it's different characters narrarating the same event but I've found it very refreshing. It shows the different reactions and feelings that different characters have. The thing I enjoyed best about it was it showed how both Beauty and the Beast are feeling about the trials that fate has thrown them. We all know the old story of Beauty and the Beast but I've always found that the ending isn't the most important part of the story but the middle, because the middle is where the characters really find themselves and where authors can really breathe new life into old characters and that is exactly what Pattou does. Wonderful.
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