Title:
Entwined
Entwined
Author:
Heather Dixon
Heather Dixon
★★☆☆☆
1.5 out of 5 stars
Just when Azalea should feel that everything is before her—beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing—it's taken away. All of it. And Azalea is trapped. The Keeper understands. He's trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. So he extends an invitation.
Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest, but there is a cost. The Keeper likes to keep things. Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.
Based off the well-known fairy tale 'The twelve dancing princesses', 'Entwined' has a plot full of magic, dancing, family secrets and enchanted passages, that even though sounding promising, fails by moving so slowly I found myself skipping pages every now and then in order for something -anything- to happen.
Most of the characters are bland, the sisters have no sense of danger and even though some of them are pre-adolescent and adolescent, they never fight or get into an argument with each other, and considering they were so unsympathetic towards… well, everyone else (but still no sense of danger) one would think they would. The main character is described as strong and somehow irascible, yet looking through her eyes was nothing but lethargic.
Lastly, the magic element -especially that one deep special nameless magic that we all know turns out to be love… seriously- seems to only be present in the book in order to solve the unsolvable and avoid plot dead-ends.
What seemed to be a formula for success, failed to deliver.
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