Review: Song of Trails (Singer Tales)
After reading Deborah Grace White 's Sacrificed Hearts book, Island of Secrets and Sacrifice , I decided to check out Haiden's origin story in the Singer Tales after reading most of the other books in the series. Song of Trails is a retelling of "Hansel and Gretel" set in the world of the Singer Tales. Though "Hansel and Gretel" has never been one of my favorites, this book featured Prince Otto as a love interest, who I had previously admired as Rosa's stepbrother in Song of Moonrise . With so many familiar characters, this book should have been the perfect storm to improve upon the original fairy tale. However, it follows a "road trip" format that drags on and on to the point where nothing interesting happens until close to the end. Gisela and Haiden are troubled children whose mother regularly tried to abandon them in the woods after an elf prophesized that Haiden would use his singer powers to take down a kingdom someday. Overly protecti