Review: Dance of Silver and Shadow by Melanie Cellier

I love when an author can retell a classic fairytale and put their own fun spin on it. Melanie Cellier does just that. She has a dozen or so books that retell classics. This is the first that I've read of hers and it didn't disappoint. 

Sometimes I am a 10-year-old girl stuck in a 41-year-old ladies body--as I really do love me princess love stories.

This is about the twelve dancing princesses but focuses on a set of twin sisters who share a bond and are able to project words into each other's minds. It ends mostly happily and sets us up nicely for the next book. :) I enjoyed it a lot!

A Dance of Silver and Shadow receives 5 clean stars as it had nothing in it your 10-year-old couldn't read. :)

And for me, it gets 4 Entertainment stars! 

I really did enjoy this story. I've already started the next book. But it didn't give those- I can't possibly wait for another second to pick up the next book--like Cinder did--feelings. It was a fun read though, and I'm excited to see where Cellier goes.

Review: Walk on Earth a Stranger

I loved Rae Carson's series: The Girl of Fire and Thorns, so I was excited when I found this series by her. Plus the cover is amazing, it totally draws you in! 

Walk on Earth a Stranger is the first in a trilogy and it did not disappoint! Carson writes so beautifully. Leah Westcott is a young girl living in Georgia in the 1800s with a special ability to find gold. When the gold rush breaks out she wants to head west. But heading west isn't easy or safe for a girl all alone. Leah runs into one trial after another, but her character and strength throughout only make you love her more!

Walk on Earth a Stranger kept me turning pages (or listening... as I enjoyed this as an audiobook :)) so much that I finished in just a few days and I'm on to book two!

So, for that it gets

5 Entertaining Stars!

There were a couple Lord's names in vain so it receives

4.5 Clean Stars!

I loved this one, friends!

Go check it out!

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 

by Rebecca Wells

recieves

Clean Stars. 

And 

Entertainment Stars!

This book was a fun read. I read it for my Book Club Reading Challenge group. This book covered the category: On Rory Gilmore's list. I remembered when the movie came out, but I've never seen it. I was excited to read it, but it was a slow start for me. It felt like a lot of back story and slow. However, the story IS the backstory! Siddalee Walker is finding herself and figuring out life and she gets there through learning about her mother's life, things she didn't know, things she didn't understand. 

And Vivi has had one heck of a life. I loved the love and connection with her friends and often reminisced of my own dear friendships as Vivi and the Ya-Ya's went on their many adventures. Overall it was a pretty entertaining read!

The Ya-Ya's lost 3 stars for: swearing, saying the Lord's name, saying the Savior's name, nudity (non-sexual), and no-scene sex.

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CLEAN STARS