If you had
the ability to transform into anything, what would it be? This is the fate of
the girl with no name, a shape-shifter.
While the
townspeople seemed frighten by the child that can turn into cats and cooking
pots, her keeper is the one that comes to her defense and stays by her side
until his death, which forces her to flee the town.
Gourlin was
an interesting place; I like how it had a policy of teaching kids to read –now,
that’s my kind of country! One thing that was irksome was that the story was
full of unknown characters, which I thought detached the reader from the plot.
There were characters like “bookseller” and the “black-bearded man”—no one
really had a name, except for the prince. And, although I am not really into
tales about castles and princes, this book still isolates itself from the
traditional “happy ending,” which I thought was rather unique.
This was
like reading one of Grimm’s fairy tales combined with Shelley’s Frankenstein. It is all about a search
to discover who was “the girl with no name” and what was her purpose. Her quest
seemed to take a rather long time as she consistently kept asking people
questions about the father she never knew. She was smart and courageous, and
learned to protect herself well. It’s a
cute, well-written story. Fascinating cover, too!
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