The Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale

Title: The Book of a Thousand Days
Author: Shannon Hale
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 306
Date read: March, 2009

Summary: When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.

As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. But the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.

Review: Based on a fairy-tale by the Brothers Grimm (whose tales I enjoy a lot more than H.C. Andersen - how unpatriotic of me! ;) ) I really enjoyed this story. It was charming, interesting and quickly read. I liked how it was told as a list of journal entries and by the maid rather than the princess.

I don't quite get why it's called "The Book of a Thousand Days" though. It spanned a lot longer than that.

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