[.ca] Once Upon a Marigold (ISBN 0152050841)

Pretty good fairy tale:
Fans of Patricia Wrede's Dragon series or Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine will probably enjoy this book. The books is in the tradition of movies like Knight's Tale: traditional-ish fairy tale with modern day overtones. Christian and Marigold communicate via p-mail (pigeon mail.) I think this is a book that intermediate and middle school readers will enjoy.

It was okay...:
...but I have read better. The beginning made me think 'okay, this is a good book,' but when I came to the end, I was thinking it was a bit rushed and a tad bit stale and corney. I mean, it had some good parts, but I have read better and I have read worse. Also, the vocabulary was a extravagant for a book for 9-12 year olds. I have a very extensive vocabulary myself for a twelve year old, but I didn't know some words myself. The story is basically a fairytale about a princess and a commoner in love. They can't get married because... well, the sentence above really explains it. Sort of a bit guessable, but I fell for it. But I don't really discourage anyone not to read it. If you like (or are obsessed), happy endings, knock yourself out. But if you like a touch of sadness, I really wouldn't buy it.

I loved this book:
I loved this book. If your a big fan of fairy tales and stuff like that you would like this book. I know people are saying it was a bit corney, but I enjoy stuff like that even though I didn't find this book to be a bit corney. I'm not a big fan of reading seeing that I'm only 13 but I got this book and I finished it in a day, I couldn't put it down! I was even reading it at dinner!

An Amazing romantic fairy tale:
This book is truly one of a kind. Unique, anything farther away than horrible. Jean Ferris did an amazing job on this book. I know you don't want to listen to may say how great this book is and you want to know what it is about so I will tell you what it is about. Ed, is a troll that must live in a cave for 100 years, but he good the better one. Amazing chrystals in every room with different colors, better then what his brothers got. One day while exploring he finds a little boy named Christian. He is dressed in nice clothes, but he ran away from his home. Ed, takes him in, even though at first he doesn't want to. Now about 11 years later he realized that it was a great idea to take care of him, and see his childhood. Well, Ed is an exlporer so he finds many things including a telescope. Ed and Christian live near the kings castle and Chris watches the princess marigold every day with the telescope. One day Christian gets a bright idea, and you have to read the book to find out what. I personaly loved this book, and I think you will too. I'm a fantsy reader, but definitely not a romance novel reader, but this books combines adventure, fantsy, realistic, and romance into one amazing book that has the perfect amount of each one. I hope you take my advice and read this book. It is one of the best books I've ever read.

A mock fairy tale with some odd characters-:
I would definitely recommend this book for those readers out there who would like to read a frothily dreamy, sweetly silly fairy tale. It's a quick read and moves quite quickly after some introduction. Great for a quick summer read~