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A review by booksnorkel
Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill
5.0
For me this book is very powerful. I love it when books address the reader and this book does it wonderfully. When your culture loves telling fairy tales you are going to grow up hearing a lot of them. Fairy tales usually have a princess, and she is always beautiful, always. What happens when you aren't a beautiful princess? What happens when you have that little bit of worry that you can't be a true princess because you aren't beautiful? Something dark, powerful, imprisoned might hear your heart's worry and it of course wants to help you. For a price, there is always a price.
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This book was sweet and sorrowful. I really enjoyed this book, and think it's a great read for fourth grade on up. Girls will be who this is aimed at but boys would also enjoy it, especially if they like fairy tales.
This book is about everything. Dragons, princesses, stories, friendship, forbidden books, EVERYTHING. This is a story about a princess who is not perfect looking like real princesses are in the stories. Her father is obsessed with trying to find dragons, and Cassian who is a story teller who is charged with keeping the origin of their world a secret. For knowledge of something gives it power. Stories are important in this world, as the entire world was created to hide a story. To explain further would give away too much.
Sweet and wonderful with just a taste of sorrow this book is worth reading.
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This book was sweet and sorrowful. I really enjoyed this book, and think it's a great read for fourth grade on up. Girls will be who this is aimed at but boys would also enjoy it, especially if they like fairy tales.
This book is about everything. Dragons, princesses, stories, friendship, forbidden books, EVERYTHING. This is a story about a princess who is not perfect looking like real princesses are in the stories. Her father is obsessed with trying to find dragons, and Cassian who is a story teller who is charged with keeping the origin of their world a secret. For knowledge of something gives it power. Stories are important in this world, as the entire world was created to hide a story. To explain further would give away too much.
Sweet and wonderful with just a taste of sorrow this book is worth reading.