Title: Saving Rapunzel
Author: Jamie Campbell
Series: Fairy Tales Retold
Pages: 31
Release Date: May 25th 2013
Series: Fairy Tales Retold
Pages: 31
Release Date: May 25th 2013
Genre: Fiction
Publisher:
Source: Amazon
Format: eBook
Publisher:
Source: Amazon
Format: eBook
Buy it: Amazon
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Synopsis: Please note: this is a novelette. Flash fiction is a fun and quick read, not a full length novel.
History is told from one person's perspective. Sometimes they don't get it right.
The witch of the tower has been portrayed as being mean and evil spirited for too long. Now it is time for her to tell her side of the story.
While Rapunzel laments her imprisonment in a tower, the witch Thalia tries to convince her it's for her own good. Afraid to go outside, Thalia fears the knights are coming to harm them.
When a persistent man continues to speak to Rapunzel, Thalia knows she must do something to stop him getting to her. With her hair growing longer, it will only be a matter of time before he can reach her.
Vowing to keep a promise she made sixteen years earlier, Thalia makes a decision that could ruin the kingdom forever.
Revisit the charming tale of Rapunzel as told from the perspective of the witch who kept her captive.
Synopsis: Please note: this is a novelette. Flash fiction is a fun and quick read, not a full length novel.
History is told from one person's perspective. Sometimes they don't get it right.
The witch of the tower has been portrayed as being mean and evil spirited for too long. Now it is time for her to tell her side of the story.
While Rapunzel laments her imprisonment in a tower, the witch Thalia tries to convince her it's for her own good. Afraid to go outside, Thalia fears the knights are coming to harm them.
When a persistent man continues to speak to Rapunzel, Thalia knows she must do something to stop him getting to her. With her hair growing longer, it will only be a matter of time before he can reach her.
Vowing to keep a promise she made sixteen years earlier, Thalia makes a decision that could ruin the kingdom forever.
Revisit the charming tale of Rapunzel as told from the perspective of the witch who kept her captive.
My Review: This spin on Rapunzel is told from the witches point of view who turns out isn't actually a witch at all.
Thalia is awoken one night by the Queen and asked to take Rapunzel and hide her away as the kingdom is under attack, not wanting to refuse the Queen's request she packs a few items and leaves.
While running Thalia finds the famous tower deep in the forest and she locks herself in it and everyday she watches out of the window for the Queens signal so they she can return with Rapunzel to the castle.
Sixteen years later Thalia is still looking out for the signal that doesn't come and Rapunzel wants so desperately to go outside but Thalia tells her how unsafe it is and that they must stay inside.
One day when Rapunzel is hold up in her room Thalia goes outside of the tower to see if it is safe and while she wonders through the forest she sees men on horses whom she believes are dangerous and she returns to the tower.
Later on while she is tending to the indoor vegetable garden she hears Rapunzel talking to someone and she punishes Rapunzel by locking her in her room, days later after promising not to do it again Thalia catches Rapunzel talking to him again but she doesn't let on this time and while Rapunzel is asleep she cuts her hair off and locks Rapunzel in her bedroom.
Thalia throws Rapunzel's have out of the window and waits for the man comes again and this time when he comes he climbs up the hair, feeling threatened Thalia prays that the hair holds up long enough for the man to high enough that when she loosens the hair he falls and is injured.
Rapunzel cannot believe what her 'mother' has done, this is when Thalia comes clean and tells Rapunzel the whole truth about who she is and who her parents are, after telling her the truth they return to the castle where the Queen is happy to see her daughter is alive and well and they both learn that the man was actually a Prince who is mean't to marry Rapunzel to help bring harmony to the kingdom.
Currently Reading: The Earth Bleeds Red by Jackson Paul Bear
Read in 2017: 9/35
Thalia is awoken one night by the Queen and asked to take Rapunzel and hide her away as the kingdom is under attack, not wanting to refuse the Queen's request she packs a few items and leaves.
While running Thalia finds the famous tower deep in the forest and she locks herself in it and everyday she watches out of the window for the Queens signal so they she can return with Rapunzel to the castle.
Sixteen years later Thalia is still looking out for the signal that doesn't come and Rapunzel wants so desperately to go outside but Thalia tells her how unsafe it is and that they must stay inside.
One day when Rapunzel is hold up in her room Thalia goes outside of the tower to see if it is safe and while she wonders through the forest she sees men on horses whom she believes are dangerous and she returns to the tower.
Later on while she is tending to the indoor vegetable garden she hears Rapunzel talking to someone and she punishes Rapunzel by locking her in her room, days later after promising not to do it again Thalia catches Rapunzel talking to him again but she doesn't let on this time and while Rapunzel is asleep she cuts her hair off and locks Rapunzel in her bedroom.
Thalia throws Rapunzel's have out of the window and waits for the man comes again and this time when he comes he climbs up the hair, feeling threatened Thalia prays that the hair holds up long enough for the man to high enough that when she loosens the hair he falls and is injured.
Rapunzel cannot believe what her 'mother' has done, this is when Thalia comes clean and tells Rapunzel the whole truth about who she is and who her parents are, after telling her the truth they return to the castle where the Queen is happy to see her daughter is alive and well and they both learn that the man was actually a Prince who is mean't to marry Rapunzel to help bring harmony to the kingdom.
Currently Reading: The Earth Bleeds Red by Jackson Paul Bear
Read in 2017: 9/35
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