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kareilaThis book surprised me. I was expecting a relatively simple juvenile fairy tale, but it was genuinely scary and gripping.
The basic premise is that a lady's maid with a heart of gold is bricked up in a tower with her mistress, a princess who refuses to consent to the marriage her father has arranged for her. But this is no mere maiden's fancy - the princess is truly traumatized, her betrothed is a bloodthirsty monster, and the stockpile of food in their tower starts to run out long before the seven years of their imprisonment is scheduled to end. Of course they will eventually escape, but that's just the beginning of their odyssey of survival.
The basic premise is that a lady's maid with a heart of gold is bricked up in a tower with her mistress, a princess who refuses to consent to the marriage her father has arranged for her. But this is no mere maiden's fancy - the princess is truly traumatized, her betrothed is a bloodthirsty monster, and the stockpile of food in their tower starts to run out long before the seven years of their imprisonment is scheduled to end. Of course they will eventually escape, but that's just the beginning of their odyssey of survival.
