Review: A Faithful Hope
I have now read a quarter of the books in the Hope Ever After series , a multi-author collaboration of fairy tale retellings to help fight human trafficking. My most recent read is A Faithful Hope by DaLeena Taylor , which might be my favorite in the series thus far. This book retells an obscure French fairy tale called "The Blue Bird," which was translated in The Green Fairy Book . This story has it all--an outcast princess, a broken kingdom to restore, a magical transformation , and a love story to stand the test of time. I was hooked from the first page and riveted by all the twists and turns this detailed story took. It is a faithful gender-swapped depiction of the fairy tale. In this version, the princess turns into a bluebird instead of the prince. Princess Aderyn's kingdom is in crisis. Her family and their subjects need the healing properties of silver to survive, but the kingdom has run dangerously low on its supply. To save everyone, Aderyn enters an arrange...