My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a solid retelling linking mildly to both Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty. Except, she's training to be a royal guard.
Etta is a bold heroine. Though I have quite a few gripws about the love interest Alexandre. He's a prince who's so obsessed with loving his people and doing right by them, that he becomes blind to what is genuinely right. He can't see past his hero/king complex. Ugh.
I assume he'll come around in book two, but who's to say.
Queen Katrine is a BAMF who has just been waiting in the sidelines to have her moment to shine. I loved every scene with her in it.
This was an audiobook read for me. I gotta say the narrator really kept me listening. She had great voices and her emotions were well done without being over the top. A very pleasant voice. I decided to jump into book 2 right away!
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