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Summary: A Well Written Book
Review: A well timed enchantment is great book that puts fantasy combined with history. It's a story about what happens when your dreams do come true. It was fascinating to me how the storyline was so cultivating and kept you digged in the book. It is a book about a girl with a cat (who is then turned into a human) and are taken back to midevil times. She has to get it from a wizard before the entire history of the world changes.
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Summary: The Best of Miss Vivian Vande Velde
Review: Deanna is an ordinary gal...well except for the fact that she's been shipped off to france with her mother. And for that little detail about how she has just dropped her mickey mouse watch into an enchanted well and has to go back in time to get it back before it alters history and the world as she knows it.
Twenty four hours - thats all the time Deanna has to retrieve the watch. Accompanied only by a cat that has been transformed into a human (Oliver) Deanna sets off on a witty and fun adventure filled with well meaning bumbling knights and wizards.
A great read! (also try Vivian Vande Velde's Companions of the Night and The Rumplestiltskin Problem)
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Summary: A Well-Timed Enchantment
Review: Deanna with a black cat named Oliver goes to a well, makes a uncompleted wish, then dropped her Mickey Mouse watch down the well. Two fair folks brings her and Oliver to medieval France. Since the seems to know alot more than Deanna applies to the fair folks they turn him into a boy about her age to help. They have 24 hours to get the watch back before it gets into the wrong hands and change the history as we know it. I loved this whole book but one thing I didn't like is the ending. At the beganing of this book Vivian says this-**To Elizabeth (even if you don't like the ending)-May all your wishws come true.** I hope you will read this book and love it as much as I do.
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Summary: Not her best, but not her worst either...
Review: First off, I should point out I'm a bit above the suggested reading level (okay, more than a bit^.^) which probably had a great deal to do with why I was moderately disappointed by this selection. The story is cute, dealt with ably, and finished off in a promising if not exactly happily-ever-after ending.
What I particularly like about several of Vande Velde's other works is that in addition to the basic storyline, the characters of her more impressive novels are also working through problems of their own--absent mothers, bad fathers, etc. This book had none of that, just the straight-forward march of girl meets boy--er, cat--girl falls in love, things work out for the best.
Having said that, there is nothing about this book that would stop me from recommending it to my much younger sister, who would probably enjoy it thoroughly. While it is not one I will reread several times (like Companions of the Night, also by Vande Velde), it was an amusing way to spend an evening.
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Summary: A truly enchanting read
Review: Have you ever wondered about the consequences of dropping your Mickey Mouse watch down an old wishing well? You can bet Deanna never did. She certainly hadn't counted on having twenty-four hours to retrieve her watch and keep history from changing. You see, the Mickey Mouse could start a cult in medieval Europe in which mice are sacred...and so prolong the plague in Europe for another couple hundred years...Luckily, she's got a companion to help her. Her cat-turned-human, Oliver. But a cat? Against a not-so-wicked wizard, a couple of bumbling knights and a lady who is infatuated with Oliver?? You bet. Filled with numerous puns, fractured fairy tales and a medieval setting, A Well-Timed Enchantment is a light and fun read.
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Summary: A well timed enchantment
Review: I found this book amusing and well written. Vande Velde twisted comedy with romance having an excelent effect. I think that anyone who likes ficton should read this!
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Summary: absolutly loved it
Review: I found this book on the library shelves when I was ten, and many years later I am still intrigued. A fabulous fairy-tale with plenty of facinating twists. Can't wait to own my own copy!
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Summary: I WANT A SEQUEL, OR A BETTER ENDING!!
Review: I LOVE this book!!! I picked it up, but couldn't put it down!When I saw this book, I though it would be just your average book. Was I ever wrong!!This book was better than any book other book I've ever read!I really like Oliver and Deanna. Oliver reminds me of a nicer version of Heero Yuy from Gundam Wing^_^ That's because he's so quiet and mysterious.I think he's neat.Deanna is your average teenage girl, which makes her very likable. I've read this book over and over again,and I'm still not sick of it! I really felt sorry for Oliver, and it's really sad how this book ends!But I loved it anyway!!
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Summary: A Terrific Book!!
Review: Not only is this adventurous and romantic, it's funny too. The main character is Deanna. When she drops her watch into a well, and it is transported into medievel France, Deanna must get it back before it changes history. She has only one other thing to help her - a cat-turned-into-a-boy. Okay, I know what you're thinking. How in the world could something as simple as a watch change history? Well, suppose someone found it and believed it was something magical. And then, suppose the king found out about this watch, and he took it. Well, you know how these kings get - if one king has something, another king will want it. It could start a war, and then... Well, anyway, Deanna and the cat-boy have to get back the watch. So, in medievel France, Deanna and Oliver (the cat) meet a bunch of annoying (and rather stupid) nobles. And the story goes on with even more adventure. As for the romance, a lady noble falls in love (or at least thinks she has) with Oliver, another (Leonard) decides to marry Deanna, and finally, at the end, Deanna and Oliver fall in love. Okay, so far you haven't heard of anything funny. But there is plenty of humour. Throughout the story Oliver has to get used to being a human (he's used to being a cat and this isn't an easy switch to make). For instance, here's a part where Oliver is having trouble with using expressions. "'...turns out since Leonard lost so badly, he figures his lady must be a real dog, so he wants to replace her with me.' Oliver stopped and stared at her. 'Leonard is marrying a dog?'" Oliver also has trouble adjusting to a new diet of human food after all those years of mice. Anyway, if this review hasn't convinced you that this book is either adventurous, romantic, or funny, you probably wouldn't enjoy it. I'd say for ages 8-14.
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Summary: A Terrific Book!!
Review: Not only is this adventurous and romantic, it's funny too. The main character is Deanna. When she drops her watch into a well, and it is transported into medievel France, Deanna must get it back before it changes history. She has only one other thing to help her - a cat-turned-into-a-boy. Okay, I know what you're thinking. How in the world could something as simple as a watch change history? Well, suppose someone found it and believed it was something magical. And then, suppose the king found out about this watch, and he took it. Well, you know how these kings get - if one king has something, another king will want it. It could start a war, and then... Well, anyway, Deanna and the cat-boy have to get back the watch. So, in medievel France, Deanna and Oliver (the cat) meet a bunch of annoying (and rather stupid) nobles. And the story goes on with even more adventure. As for the romance, a lady noble falls in love (or at least thinks she has) with Oliver, another (Leonard) decides to marry Deanna, and finally, at the end, Deanna and Oliver fall in love. Okay, so far you haven't heard of anything funny. But there is plenty of humour. Throughout the story Oliver has to get used to being a human (he's used to being a cat and this isn't an easy switch to make). For instance, here's a part where Oliver is having trouble with using expressions. "'...turns out since Leonard lost so badly, he figures his lady must be a real dog, so he wants to replace her with me.' Oliver stopped and stared at her. 'Leonard is marrying a dog?'" Oliver also has trouble adjusting to a new diet of human food after all those years of mice. Anyway, if this review hasn't convinced you that this book is either adventurous, romantic, or funny, you probably wouldn't enjoy it. I'd say for ages 8-14.
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