Romance Mini Reviews

Notes: Not to be confused by Dickes work of a similar title, this book is loosely based off of "Puss and Boots," just with a detective dragon. Something that is a little weird is that the dragon doesn't specify whether it is a boy or a girl dragon. It's not meant to be um...like what that means today. The dragon prefers to be mysterious, and that is all. I came to the conclusion that the dragon is a girl.

Notes: Hillarious retelling of "The Glass Hill"

Notes: Visit Cranford, where one must be genteel at all times. One does not discuss finances, even if one is arranging how to help another.

Notes: This book is hardly like the movie. There are no giants who sing and dance, or political protests, of a fan club for Prince Charmont. Also, Ella is a bit younger...and the story is less funny...but I like it a lot.

Notes: Woodhouse, clever and agreeable, has a inclination to become a matchmaker...but will any of her predictions come about, or will she only cause heartache by her meddling?

Notes: This is a publishing house. Enclave publishes books for older teens and young adults. I have liked everything that I have read. Their books are often heavier and darker, and not for younger readers. I have reviewed several of their books.

Notes: I didn't write down all of Mrs. Hill's books, because she wrote a lot, but I have liked every one that I have read. If any Christian movie studios want to make a Halmark-type movie, they should pick up some of these books! I've read a lot of them, and they are all sweet and wonderful. Ignore many of the book covers they aren't...accurate.

Notes: If your daughter wants to read gothic fiction, and you don't want to do vampires, this book is an option. It is my opinion that the Bronte sisters did NOT have a traumatic childhood, they just liked to write books that would shock everybody. SPOILERS!!! The house is not haunted, it's just Mr. Rotchester's crazy wife, Mr. Rochester almost marries Jane while he is married to his original wife, his wife also is violent and occasionally traverses the house, terrifying Jane.

Notes: Will Kilmeny ever speak again? She used to, but now she doesn't. The doctor says that only a great mental and emotional effort would restore her speech.

Notes: Both sweet and sinister, this book intertwines all sorts of people, from Amy Dorrit born in the Marshalsea, to Edmund Sparker the none-to-brilliant, to Rigaud the murderer. (He's creepy.) There is also some bad language.

Notes: If one ever decides to try homesteading, one must take these books along. The author, in telling her story, explains how to make everything from sausage to log cabins, how to harvest ice, how to clean a rifle, how to skin a pig, how to smoke meat, how to teach school. As for potential concerns, Laura admits that she finds church boring.

Notes: You've probably watched (at some point) a variation of this book.

Notes: This book is considered the best-written of Jane Austen's books.

Note: Not to be confused with an American book of the same name, this book is about the cotton mills in the north of England. (I really like the BBC adaptation)

Notes: Jane Austen write this book as a satire of Gothic novels. It is so funny!

Notes: Like all of Dicken's novels, this book has a plot that takes many twists and turns, involving all sorts of people, from a murderous madman, to a doll's dressmaker.

Notes: Anne Elliot is done with love...or she was until Captain Wentworth showed up again.

Notes: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Notes: This is a funny retelling of "Sleeping Beauty."

Notes: Elanor and Marianne are two sisters who love each other dearly, even though they are as different as, well, sense and sensibility.

Notes: This is a funny re-telling of "Toads and Diamonds"

Notes: this is a funny re-telling of "The Golden Goose"

Notes: the princess is light in the sense that she doesn't weigh anything, not that she glows.

Notes: This is a funny re-telling of "The Princess and the Pea"

Notes: This book could also be called "Husbands and Sons"