Braided

Tiny Craig’s favorite in the series so far!......more

I borrowed this book from my local library. It's a current finalist for the Norton Award. I've loved Cypess's other creative reinventions of fairy tales, and this one is also a delight. The tale retells in Rapunzel in a fresh way through the viewpoint of Rapunzel's younger sister, Cinna. She has neve......more

The fifth in the popular Sisters Ever After series, this one is a must-read for fans of fairy tales and those who prefer theirs to be fractured or revised. Focusing on the young sister left behind when Rapunzel disappears from her castle and ends up in the Realms, prompting years of attempts to find......more

A beautiful, tender, poetic tale told from the perspective of Rapunzel’s lesser-known sister, Princess Cinna. The girls are separated at a tender young age after the Fairy Queen abducts Rapunzel (or could it be that someone has made a deal with the fae?), and to cope with her loneliness, Cinna begin......more

I'm a bit disappointed in this book--I loved the other books in the series, but this one....it just wasn't as interesting. I wasn't as invested in the story. I didn't like the world (although some concepts of it, like the hair magic--braid spells--were mildly interesting), and something about the pl......more