Enchantment: A Classic Fantasy with a Modern Twist, (Paperback)

from tjsjohanna

Mixing reality and fantasy, and exploring old myths and fairy tales, Mr. Card creates a complex and interesting story. Oh, and there's a bit of romance tossed in for good measure. This isn't like any Sleeping Beauty re-telling I've ever read, and it made me really interested in the old folk tales...

from vanedow

Enchantment. A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, this story is set in modern times. Ivan is wandering in the forest when he stumbles upon the sleeping Katerina, a princess from a world that vanished ages ago. As Ivan and Katerina encounter the absolute strangeness of each other's world...

from Carl_Alves

I had some doubts prior to reading Enchantment. I have read a few other Orson Scott Card, and didn't especially care for them. Having said that, I was pleasantly surprised to read Enchantment. Our story's hero, Ivan, is a Ukranian living in the United States, where he is a grad student. He is mys...

from guyalice

A wonderful read, connecting folklore studies with the actual mytho-historic events, as a young Russian American is sent back through time to awaken the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (of rural Ukraine). Now heir to the thrown of a kingdom under attack, Ivan (of course he's named Ivan) and his initi...

from SharonGoforth

Enchantment is the story of Ivan, a Jewish boy living in the Ukraine, who accidently stumbles upon a beautiful woman asleep on a pedestal, surrounded by a moat full of leaves, hiding a chasm containing some sort of monster.  Ivan runs off, but never forgets this encounter.  His parents decide to ...