Revel: Twelve Dancing Princesses Retold

Name: Revel: Twelve Dancing Princesses Retold
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Demelza Carlton
ISBN: 9781662277962

Author: Demelza Carlton

Series: Romance a Medieval Fairytale #4

Narrator: Mary Sarah

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lost Plot Press

Published: 08/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance

Synopsis

Twelve princesses. One wounded soldier. A mystery that must be solved.Once upon a time...Princess Bianca is sent with her sisters to the summer palace, a place no maiden has ever returned from. While her sisters seem perfectly happy, she has only one desire: escape.Vasco, a wounded soldier on his way home from war, stumbles across the summer palace and sets out to solve the mystery no man has managed to yet. If only they let him live long enough...Can the fair maiden and the wounded soldier uncover the sinister secret before it's too late?
Romance a Medieval Fairytale series:Each book is a standalone, so they can be read in any order:Enchant: Beauty and the Beast RetoldDance: Cinderella RetoldFly: Goose Girl RetoldRevel: Twelve Dancing Princesses RetoldSilence: Little Mermaid RetoldAwaken: Sleeping Beauty RetoldEmbellish: Brave Little Tailor RetoldAppease: Princess and the Pea RetoldBlow: Three Little Pigs RetoldReturn: Hansel and Gretel RetoldWish: Aladdin RetoldMelt: Snow Queen RetoldSpin: Rumpelstiltskin RetoldKiss: Frog Prince RetoldHunt: Red Riding Hood RetoldReflect: Snow White RetoldRoar: Goldilocks RetoldCobble: Elves and the Shoemaker RetoldFloat: Enchanted Horse RetoldSteal: Forty Thieves RetoldCall: Pied Piper RetoldFeather: Swan Maidens Retold

About Demelza Carlton

The Ocean's Gift series was USA Today bestselling author Demelza Carlton's first foray into fiction, followed by the Nightmares trilogy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by BigComfyChairBookReviews on July 30, 2018

A Valiant Effort 2.5 Stars This is one of my favorite fairytales and I thought Carlton did a nice job of beefing up the original story to make it a full-length book. The length was perfect, and the magical elements were well done. However, the writing is overly simplistic, the characters are boring, a......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on April 04, 2017

Bianca - it's been so long since I've heard/read the name, yet it's perfect for a princess. And Bianca is a great princess, not spoiled or whiny, but embracing the possibility of freedom. Watching her grow through the story is satisfying. As for Vasco - now he's the type of hero that fairytales need......more

Goodreads review by Ksandra on April 09, 2017

5/5 Stars Now that was one heck of a retelling. The Twelve Dancing Princesses was always one of my favorite stories when I was growing up. Although short, it held mystery and romance, two things that always attracted me. In this version, the princesses are sent to a palace in exile by the queen for va......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on July 08, 2017

Found this book for free on Amazon; this is my honest review. - This is not one of the popular tales that we heard when we were young so I had to search the story in my Brothers Grimm's repertoire to remind me of the original story. - The author gives us a short chapter or two of how the farmer became......more

Goodreads review by The Book Junkie Reads . . . on December 14, 2020

New fairy tale to me in every sense. I am not sure how it was supposed to go. I was lured in by what I didn't know. The story here was in the way things happened. I will assume this was a unique telling of this particular timeless story. Narrator Mary Sarah has a very beautiful voice that transcends......more