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Summary: A Very Enjoyable Book
Review: This book is great! It is about a princess who hates doing the usual princess things: embroidery, etiquette, and drawing. So she starts taking other lessons as well: fencing, Latin, cooking, economics, and juggling.
Her parents, of course, find out about all these lessons and they stop them saying that they aren't proper for a princess.Her parents decide to marry her to a very stupid and annoying prince. When she hears about her parent's plans, she decides to run away.
While running away she meets a dragon, and she volunteers to cook and clean for the dragon. While with the dragon, she has an adventure that includes dragons, wizards, and a witch.
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Summary: Almost a PC fairy tale
Review: Proper Princesses don't speak Latin. They do not cook. And they most certainly do NOT learn fencing and magic! Why? Because it's just not done by proper princesses! Not even Cimorene would describe herself as a proper princess. She even chases away the knights who come to "rescue" her from the dragons because she is very happy where she is, thank you very much! And if that isn't enough to illustrate the author's sense of humor, it is also the book from which we get the warning, "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." I first read this book in the 7th grade (I'm now in college) and I picked it up again out of nostalgia. Imagine my surprise when I liked it even MORE the second time. The princess is intelligent, has a sense of humor, and doesn't balk at adventure. It's always refreshing to read a book with a heroine who doesn't whine about breaking a nail or wait for someone to come rescue her. This is no damsel in distress!
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Summary: WONDERFUL BOOK!
Review: I just read this book last week, and I have one thing to say: WONDERFUL BOOK! This is a great, memorable book with wonderful characters, good humor, an imaginative plot, with twists and turns, and it's well written. I would reccomend this book to anyone who loves fantasy, or who is trying fantasy for the first time. This was a great book, I absolutely loved it, and I am eager to read the other three books. I am sure they'll be just as great as the first one. :)
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Summary: I Love this series
Review: This is a wonderful and original series. I love the way Wrede took a common fairy tale belief and put a twist on it. As an adult, I thought it was funny and attention getting. I've also recommended to several teenagers, who gobbled up all four books in the series in a matter of a few days.
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Summary: Dealing with Dragons
Review: This book is one of the best books I have ever read. It is funny and I love all the fantasy in it. I think that Cimorene is a very cool princess! I would definitley like to be her. I really like magic and all the magic and magical creatures got me hooked on this book. I could NOT put it down. She has written three sequels to this. I am reading the fourth one now. They are Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Draons. She also wrote the Book of Enchantments which is stories from the Enchanted Forest and beyond. I cannot wait to read that. I defintly recommend this book and other books by Patrica C. Wrede!
S.C.B.
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Summary: Great for Mother & Daughter
Review: My daughter is 11 and we both enjoy fantasy. We loved this book! Reading it together proved a great opportunity to share both the story and our opinions with each other. As a bonus it has a strong female character who knows herself which is always nice.
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Summary: exciting,and fun
Review: The female dragons had three horns, one on each side and on their foreheads. This is the way Wrede describes the female dragons in the cave Cimorene finds herself in. In the beginning of this book Cimorene the princess is acting "improper" by taking cooking, juggling, fencing, and magic lessons. When ever she tries something new her father always finds out about it and stops it. Then she tries something else. Finally he decides she is going to marry a prince. Once Cimorene runs away everything starts happening with the dragons and wizards. After a while the Dragon King dies, or is he murdered? Now someone is trying to become the king by using magic. Cimorene and her friends must stop this.
I recommend this book because it was fast paced excitement. If you like some suspense and you have an imagination you should look in this book.
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Summary: Enchanting and just plain fun!
Review: I read "Dealing with Dragons",along with the rest of the "Enchanted Forest Chronicles", a couple of years back. I had just read "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine, which I highly reccommend reading after these, and wondered what to read next. Then my sister brought this one home from the book store-and let me say that this is a very enjoyable read for a wide variety of ages. It's fast paced, but it's original and with every page you turn the more harder it gets to put the book down. I had to make frequent stops to the book store to buy the next book that came after the previous. In fact, my mom even threatened me saying that if I didn't do the dishes that night I wouldn't get the book-and it worked! So, If you like adventurous stories with dragons, wizards, and a not so princess-like princess then these are a must read! Oh, and make sure you have plenty of batteries in your flashlight because you'll be under your covers reading all night!
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Summary: a great beginning to an even greater series!!
Review: When I first ordered this book online I didn't think that I would like it because it wasn't exacly my type(ya know dragons and stuff).... but once I started it, it was amazing.
This fairy tale is about a princess named Cimerene who hates being a priness, she does everything in her power to be difficult and unpredictable and she is really good at it. She confuses her parents because all of thier other daughters were very beautiful and well-brought up.
So she runs away (by the advice from a frog) and meets a pack of dragons. As they are deciding wheather or not to eat her, she decides they aren't as bad as she might have guessed. She becomes a princess to a dragon named Kazul and the rest happens on it's own. Adventure arises and the fun begins. This is a wonderful fantasy book with humor and adventure
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Summary: Dealing with Dragons deals with female stereotypes
Review: Patricia C Wrede is a good author and I would highly recommend this book to young girls, but the feminist lesson is a bit forced. Cimorene isn't your typical princess and she knows it. She's been groomed her whole life to marry a prince and live happily ever after, but that isn't what what would make her happy? Cimorene wants more from her life and she's willing to run away to get it. She finds herself at the door of Kazul and soon finds herself the assistant and housekeeper of a very powerful dragon. If only the stupid princes would stop trying to rescue her she might really get her happily ever after. The characters are sometimes a bit simple, but the story is fairly clever. Cimorene frowns upon girls who actually do enjoy the standard princess life. She ridicules them and finds them "silly". Wrede sets up Cimorene to be a feminist in an old fashioned world and that in itself is a good message, but putting down those who live their lives in the standard way might not be the best way to do it. You want girls to feel empowered. They should feel free to be whatever they want to be whether it's a doctor or a homemaker. All of the choices are an option and that should be taken into consideration. The book is well written, entertaining and funny. It has a good message for young girls, but would be enjoyed by boys who like fantasy also. I haven't read the rest of the series, but it be interesting to see how Cimorene develops.
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