Iron Hearted Violet- September 23,2013

 

Iron Hearted Violet

Kelly Branhill

424 pages

Overview:
Direct from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Hearted-Violet-Kelly-Barnhill/dp/0316056731)

The end of their world begins with a story. This one.

In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales.

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being--called the Nybbas--imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph...or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories make their own rules.

Iron Hearted Violet is a story of a princess unlike any other. It is a story of the last dragon in existence, deathly afraid of its own reflection. Above all, it is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.

My Opinion:

This story involves as many would say an ugly princess and her best friend, though I would call her beautiful anyway in personality and out. This is an original concept through and through. I have never read a story like this before. At first I was hesitant to read the whole book, because it starts out a little slow. Eventually though the gem inside came out. I liked the characters though besides Cassian, Violet, and Demetrius the rest of them are really just part of the background. You really don't hear or read about an "ugly" princess that much. In a way Kelly Branhill addresses that by making you root for her princess anyway. Sometimes Violet may get on your nerves, but you know the reason why. I suggest you read this book and her other book The Mostly True Story of Jack. You won't be disappointed and at the end of the story , you'll always be wanting more.