I spent most of yesterday devouring Enna Burning, by Shannon Hale. It's the second in her Bayern series, which started with The Goose Girl, a beautifully expanded Grimm's Fairy Tale where people can learn the languages of the birds, the wind, even the fire.
I'd heard from a few people that the second in the series isn't as satisfying as the first, because the main character switches from Isi to her friend Enna, but I find myself wanting to emphatically disagree. I loved Isi's tale, with imposters and betrayal and disguise and all these fantastically wonderful things, but with Enna... there's just something a little bit more.
In this edition, Enna spends much of the book fighting herself, fighting the desire to burn everything and everyone—including herself—to the ground, and it just has a little bit more of an edge to it than the first novel did. I loved it whole-heartedly. I'm looking forward to picking up the third edition, River Secrets once it's in paperback, and I'm thrilled to hear that there's a fourth novel in the works. A good series is like magic to me, and I've found myself completely in love with this one.
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You know, my curiosity is peaked. I may have to check these out after all. I like retold fairytales very much.
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