After the Russian Revolution, Empress Marie, the czar’s mother, who escaped to Paris, offers a reward for the return of her missing granddaughter, the princess Anastasia. Eager to collect the large sum, two friends hatch a plan to fool Empress Marie and convince Nadya, a mischievous and quick-witted kitchen girl at a Russian tavern, to accompany them to France. Nadya resembles the famous Anastasia, but can’t remember her life before the revolution. Eager for the future, Nadya and her new friends venture across Europe, discovering new terrain of friendship, family, and love.
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Cameron Dokey is the author of nearly thirty teen novels. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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The Worst in the Series,
By Shashasha (US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The World Above (Once Upon a Time) (Mass Market Paperback)
I *love* the Once Upon a Time Series and Cameron Dokey's work is particularly brilliant. However, this book was just not good. It was just plain boring! I usually can polish off one of these books in one sitting, but I started this one a few days after it came out and I still haven't finished.
My favorites in the Once Upon a Time Series: The Rose Bride, The Storyteller's Daughter, Water Song, Snow.
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Fee Fi Fo Fum...,
This review is from: The World Above (Once Upon a Time) (Mass Market Paperback)
I smell a story that is not dumb! I love and collect the Once Upon a Time books, and this one did not fail to satisfy! It left me looking up when the next one comes out (unfortunatly, I couldn't find anything.)
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All throughout Gen's entire life, her mother has been telling her and her twin brother stories about the World Above, the land they truly belong in, and of the misdeeds that led to their exile in the Wolrd Below. Gen has never really thought of the stories as anything more than bedtime tales, but Jack believes them wholeheartedly. So when Jack trades the family cow for seven magical beans and a magical beanstalk grows from one of the beans, Gen's skepticism turns into belief. But then Jack is kidnapped by an evil duke, and it is up to Gen to travel to the land she only just now believes in and rescue him.
The World Above is an imaginative and fresh retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk. Dokey proves herself a clever writer with the rearrangement of the old tale to accommodate a spunky, if not reluctant, heroine and two different worlds--one 'Above', and one 'Below'. Like with many fairy tales, the true love happens with a snap of the finger, unexpected heroes and heroines nobly rise to the occasion, and the villain is quick to admit his mistakes and accept defeat when cornered. Nonetheless, all of the favorite elements of the story are present, and with a smart ending and a lesson on nobility and love and faith, The World Above is a great story for readers in want of a story more involved and complicated than the simple fairy tale.
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