Dearest by Alethea Kontis

Dearest by Alethea Kontis - 283 pages

Friday Woodcutter is an apprentice seamstress with a generous heart for orphans and all people.  When she is rescued and taken to the palace after a mysterious ocean suddenly appears across the entire country, she discovers a family under a curse.  By day seven brothers are turned into swans only to become human during the night.  Can Friday save them from the curse and the man hunting them down?

This is the third book in the Woodcutter Sisters series.  I absolutely love this series.  It combines several different fairy tales to make new stories that are fun and interesting to read.  A great series for teens.

Trixter by Alethea Kontis

Trixter by Alethea Kontis  143 pages

Trix Woodcutter is the long prophesied Boy Who Talks to Animals. He's also a foundling prankster scamp who places his family under a sleeping spell so that he can run away from home. Compelled by a vision of his dead birthmother, Trix departs on the eve of a Great Catastrophe, only to find himself caught in the maelstrom. Armed with little more than his wits and the wisdom inherent in all fey-blooded youth, Trix confronts a legendary Animal King, faces off against a ghostly feline, rescues a damsel in distress, and discovers more about himself than he ever wished to know.
And this adventure is only the beginning...

Dearest by Alethea Kontis

Dearest by Alethea Kontis  282 pages

In this delightful third book, Alethea Kontis weaves together some fine-feathered fairy tales to focus on Friday Woodcutter, the kind and loving seamstress. When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday's palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he's her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day. Can Friday's unique magic somehow break the spell?

Hero by Alethea Kontis

Hero by Alethea Kontis  282 pages

Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic - until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and whisked off to the top of the world. Is Saturday powerful enough to kill the mountain witch who holds her captive and save the world from sure destruction? And, as she wonders grumpily, "Did romance have to be part of the adventure?"

Hero by Alethea Kontis

Hero by Alethea Kontis - 282 pages
The Woodcutter Sisters, Book 2

Saturday can't wait for her chance at adventure.  She is the only normal one in her family of magical, enchanted children -- or so she thought.  When she accidentally creates an ocean in her backyard she is kidnapped by an evil witch who wants revenge on her brother.  Her only hope is a fellow victim, a prince under a spell to look like witch's daughter.  They must work together to defeat the witch and escape from the mountain prison.

This was a great sequel to Enchanted.  While Enchanted was a combination of several fairy tales woven together, Hero was more of an original tale.  There were elements of other tales thrown in, but they were more side characters and story lines.  I can't wait for the third book to come out.

Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

Enchanted by Alethea Kontis  308 pages

It isn't easy being Sunday's child, not when you're the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night, Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland - and a man Sunday's family despises. The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction to this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past - and hers?