How to see yourself as you really are by Dalai Lama XIV.The Geography of bliss: one grump's search for the happiest places in the world by Eric Weiner.as if fairy tales are everyday occurences and we just aren't looking at them correctly. It gave the tale such a realistic background. I also enjoyed the subtle reference to Louis Armstrong and how the books that Jack and Emma read in captivity are ones that were popular then and we still enjoy reading today like Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. The story worked well with Jack's background growing up in Louisiana and swimming in the Mississippi etc.
The extra layer of story as the Frog Prince really didn't enhance the story too much but definitely gave things an extra flavor at times. Both go to extreme lengths to save each other (after Jack gets his strength back) and to pass information to the Allies and end up falling in love. Jack and Emma are not alike at all but common cause and experience bind them together to survive the insanity of war. He is weak from the effects of the gas and is saved by Emma who happened by the well and saw him in search of a locket (the gold ball) that she threw in anger. As is, his skin is torn and broken and his eyes are burned and swollen into slits. An American soldier fighting for the British troops named Jack got badly injured in a chlorine gas attack and was able to make his way to Emma's home and down her well to save himself from the gas. Her mother died in a bombing and Emma is literally caught between the Germans and Allies as they battle it out to control the North Sea ports. One would expect a story like the frog prince to be rife with magic and fairies and princes but the story of the frog prince is almost a gloss over the true story of the book.Įmma is a British aristocrat that got trapped in her mother's ancestral home in Belgium on the Western Front in World War I. This book felt much less like a fairytale than some of the others I have read so far. This is the third book I've read in the series and I continue to be impressed with the level of storytelling they provide.
I have really begun to like the "Once upon a Time" series with it's interesting retellings of standard fairy tales in unconventional settings that I wouldn't have dreamed of. Water Song: a Retelling of "The Frog Prince" by Suzanne Weyn
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