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A Well-Timed Enchantment

A Well-Timed Enchantment

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Entertaining and fun
Review: This book is absolutly inventive and really fun to read. It is not an ordinary book, but that is what makes it fun! All the characters are interesting and unpredictable. Not only is there adventure, but a minnie love story in the making. I definatly recomend reading this book! It's totally enchanting!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A lively well paced drama, with a dabble of comedy!!!!
Review: This book is fun and a fast read! Something that would appeal to people everywhere! The cultur that is woven in with the spell binding words give a sneak peake into the past, something that may appeal to many! a interesting blend of charechters, from a conseated Lady to a cat turned humman! A lively pace is deffinetly attrctive to readers! I deffinitly rate this book absalutly wounderful!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Enchanting
Review: This book is what the title says- enchanting. It throws you into the action quickly. Making the characters entertaining and witty. It is full of quick surprises that will keep the book at a steady pace, keeping the reader entertained.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: a helpless heroine, but Oliver is a great character
Review: This book is worth reading if only for the character of Oliver, a cat turned human. It's amazing...he speaks, thinks, and observes the world as I'm sure only a cat could. The rest of the book is fluff, but basically enjoyable...if you can overlook all the glaring historical inaccuracies. Also, the heroine often infuriated me with her helpless, clueless attitude (having just finished "Ella Enchanted" which featured such an amazing heroine, I was highly disappointed in this one). Nevertheless, it provided entertainment for a few hours, and some of Vivian Velde's details were amazingly imaginative. I must end, once again, by proclaiming that the character of Oliver is superb!! Most cat owners are probably aware that their pets see the world differently and it's fun to see that difference voiced.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a summer holiday in France
Review: This is the story of Deanna. Deanna has been brought along by her mother to spend the summer in France with relatives. She is not having a good time. Her mother can speak many languages, and tells Deanna that she will pick French up during the stay. Deanna doesn't and has to use gestures to talk with her relatives who only speak French.

One day when Deanna is out walking with only a cat named Oliver for company, she stumbles upon a well. Thinking it looks so much like a wishing well, she started to wish. The only problem is she doesn't know quite what she wants to wish for. Her thoughts fly instantly to the wish of her father and mother living together happily again, without a divorce. She gets no farther than "I wish..." when Oliver accidentally causes her to drop her Mickey Mouse watch into the well. Suddenly she finds herself being pulled into the well, for it really is a magic well and the wishing has caused a loop-hole in time through which her watch fell. 'the Fair Folk' who tell her that she must get the watch back in 24 hours, or else it will destroy history pulled her into the well. If she doesn't complete this task she will cease to exist.

Oliver leaped into the well after seeing Deanna disappear into it. Because of Deanna's questions, the Fair Folk decide that Oliver is much smarter than Deanna and that she will need help on this quest. Then they turn Oliver into a human, and set the two off on their quest.

The reason I rated this book four stars and not five is that Deanna's attitude got on my nerves. She always assumed that she was right; that she knew exactly what was going on even when all evidence pointed in the opposite direction.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Did not Connect together
Review: Velde made an unusual but unique point of trying to alter and rewrite a mix of classic fairytales and throw it into a book. This was a very funny book, but in the ending many things did not make much sense and it seemed as though many of the chapters were in the book just to make this book longer, being more acceptable at schools and for parents.


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