Synopsis: Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it’s taken away. All of it.
The Keeper understands. He’s trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation.
Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest.
But there is a cost Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in [the] web until it is too late
Entwined is a revisionist tale of The 12 Dancing Princess. I wasn’t familiar with the fairy tale so I read the synopsis on Wikipedia to have something to base my reading on.
In the novel Dixon keeps to the basics of the classic story but fleshes it out with magical and dark details.
The novel falls somewhere between historical fiction and a fairy tale. It takes place in the fictional land of D’eathe where the twelve sisters encounter an old form of magic when they need it most. Lead by their eldest sister and our heroine, Azalea, the sisters quickly learn that there is more to magic than they thought possible. There is also a sprinkling of action, romance, and drama along for the ride.
For a novel with 12 protagonists, Dixon does a good job of giving the girls different personalities. Naming the sisters alphabetical in age order, also makes it easier to keep track of who is who!
I think this novel with be most at home with Jane Austen fans, there is a little action and a lot of talk of arranged marriages, sisterhood and true love. Despite the somewhat dark moments the book comes across with Disney-esque plotting.
This was a quick simple read that was enjoyable, overall nothing new or groundbreaking.
Dixon is also an artist and her site has some cute drawings to accompany the novel, including Princess Azalea Paper Dolls
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1/2 of the blogging duo at Books and Sensibility, I have been blogging about and reviewing books since 2011. I read any and every genre, here on the blog I mostly review Fantasy, Adult Fiction, and Young Adult with a focus on audiobooks.