Sunday, June 29, 2008

Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley


Bella at Midnight is a wonderful example of Medieval times with the proper amount of fairy tale thrown in but still remaining real to the time period. The story is very quick to draw the reader in and hard to put down. Each chapter is told through one of the characters points of view relating to what they're thinking while the events take place. The story is about a girl called Isabelle who is not wanted by her father- a knight of noble wealth, when her mother dies in childbirth. She is placed with a loving peasant family for her early life and doesn't know about her noble background until she grows up. Her father requests her return to his household when he remarries but a new step mother and family are not as pleasant as they seem.

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