Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Winterspell by Claire Legrand


Winterspell by Claire Legrand

Goodreads Blurb: The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince…but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums.

New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor’s ever-proper daughter, leads a double life. Since her mother’s murder, she has secretly trained in self-defense with the mysterious Drosselmeyer.

Then, on Christmas Eve, disaster strikes.

Her home is destroyed, her father abducted—by beings distinctly not human. To find him, Clara journeys to the war-ravaged land of Cane. Her only companion is the dethroned prince Nicholas, bound by a wicked curse. If they’re to survive, Clara has no choice but to trust him, but his haunted eyes burn with secrets—and a need she can’t define. With the dangerous, seductive faery queen Anise hunting them, Clara soon realizes she won’t leave Cane unscathed—if she leaves at all.

Inspired by The Nutcracker, Winterspell is a dark, timeless fairy tale about love and war, longing and loneliness, and a girl who must learn to live without fear.

My thoughts: I have a basic understanding of the Nutcracker but I can’t give much details about the original story or how it compares to Winterspell. Overall I thought the story was interesting, kept me entertained throughout the whole book. The only issue I had was I felt the romance between Clare and the Prince was unnecessary and at some points annoying. There are no plans for a sequel but there are two novellas, one takes place before Winterspell and the second after.

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