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Grade 6 Up–A reworking of the Mozart opera "The Magic Flute." On her 16th birthday, Mina, the daughter of Pamina, the Queen of the Night, and Sarastro, the Mage of the Day, is to be taken to live with the father she hardly knows until he can choose a suitable husband for her. When he arrives early to sweep her away, Pamina seeks revenge by enlisting Lapin, a local boy, to play his enchanted bells and call Mina's true love to her. Tern, a prince, hears the bells and, unable to resist their call, arrives with his magic flute, with which he is able to play the music of his heart. Mina and Tern fall in love, and an angry Sarastro sets a deadly trial for Tern to complete in order to have his daughter's hand. Mina, refusing to stand by and have her life decided for her, accompanies Tern so that they may face the challenge together. The telling alternates among four points of view: Mina, Tern, Lapin, and Gayna, an orphan girl whom Sarastro has raised and who mostly gives readers insight into his way of thinking. The setting is otherworldly but the voices are modern, making it easy for teens to relate to the narrators. The strong female characters and the blend of fantasy and romance make this a great light read.–Michele Capozzella, Chappaqua Public Library, NY
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Sunlight and Shadow, Oct. 19 2006
Par E.G. Matthews "An Avid Reader" (Ohio, USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Sunlight and Shadow (Mass Market Paperback)
"Her love is trapped between Night and Day..."

Before the world was ever created, there was Sarastro, the glowing Mage of the Day, and Pamina, the beautiful Queen of the Night. By a bizarre chain of events, the Lord Sarastro and the Queen Pamina wed, living in a gargantuan palace upon the highest mountain in the world. And with their marriage came the creation of the world, the union of Night and Day, the moon and the sun, as one. In their marriage, Sarastro and Pamina not only created the world, but also created Mina, a beautiful girl-child born on the longest night in the darkest month of the year. Seeing Mina was clearly a child of the Night, Sarastro abandoned his daughter. If the marriage between Sarastro and Pamina was broken, the world itself would fall apart at the seams. They must always remain together. But there was only one problem...

Sarastro and Pamina absolutely despised one another.

How, then, could they live in the exact same palace? Actually, it was quite easy for Sarastro and Pamina to ignore each other. The palace upon the mountain was so enormous that Sarastro and his followers of the Day stayed on one side, while Pamina and her followers of the Night remained on the other. Even though they lived in the same home, young Mina barely ever caught a brief glimpse of her father, living with her beloved mother and Lapin, her only friend, a local farm boy employed by Pamina because of the enchanted set of bells from his family that allowed the player to bring one's own true love to them by playing the music of their heart. But everything was about to change in Mina's world when the day reached her sixteenth birthday, a very special day indeed. It was decided between Sarastro and Pamina that on their daughter's sixteenth birthday, Pamina would hand Mina over to her husband to be educated in the ways of the Day and marry a man of Sarastro's choice.

But Sarastro broke his vow. He stole Mina away from her mother's arms during the night before her sixteenth birthday. The terror of Mina being kidnapped by Sarastro's men and pulled away from her arms tore Pamina apart. Taken against her will to Sarastro's side of the palace, Mina meets Gayna, the orphaned forester's daughter brought in by Sarastro at age five, when her father died; and he raised Gayna as her own daughter for eleven years. Mina also becomes sourly acquainted with Statos, Sarastro's right-hand man and apprentice, and whom Mina's hand in marriage has been given to. Although they both expected an enmity to form between them, Mina and Gayna soon become friends, and Gayna assists Mina in her escape.

Meanwhile, Pamina seeks out Lapin to play his magical bells again, but not to find his own lost lover, but to instead play the music of Mina's heart, and find her true love. Unable to pull himself away from the luring melody of the bells, Tern, a handsome prince from a faraway kingdom, follows the sound and meets Pamina and Lapin. Tern is instructed to find Mina and rescue her from Sarastro; it only takes one look at Mina's beautiful face for Tern to fall deeply in love with her. But when Tern and Mina are finally united, Sarastro and an angry Statos set up a challenge of two extremely difficult trials for Tern and Mina to pass through, in order for Tern to have her father's acceptance to marry Mina. Can Mina and Tern's blossoming love survive through the burning fire of hell and the sweet embrace of death?

Definitely the most original of the current installment in the Once Upon A Time series, critically-acclaimed YA author Cameron Dokey has crafted an excellent fairy tale retelling from the timeless classic opera by Mozart, The Magic Flute. The first-person perspective switches between five different viewpoints: Mina, Tern, Lapin, Gayna, and Statos. The interesting style of the novel is this: the five colorful narrators all really address the readers, a wonderful way to appeal to teens. Although the story draws more from mythology than fairy tale---as The Magic Flute was originally based upon Egyptian mythology---and some more reluctant readers could possibly be confused by the constantly switching viewpoints, this is still one of the better entries in this great new series.

Highly recommended!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Enchanting, Juil 3 2004
This review is from: Sunlight and Shadow (Mass Market Paperback)
SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW by Cameron Dokey is the latest retold fairy tale in the ONCE UPON A TIME series from Simon Pulse. It tells the story of Mina, the daughter of the Queen of Night (Pamina) and the Mage of the Day (Sarastro). Mina has lived with her mother for almost sixteen years, but, on the day before she was supposed to be returned to her father so he could choose her husband, he steals her away ahead of schedule. He wants to force her to wed the man of his choosing, when all she wants to do is follow her heart.

The story swtiches viewpoint sometimes by chapter and sometimes by paragraph. Cameron Dokey does a good job of giving the characters distinct voices, so that I only got confused about the point of view once. The POV switches between:

Mina: The daughter who wants the freedom to choose her husband, and to stay with him once she has done so,
Lapin: Mina's best friend and the Queen of Night's faithful servant,
Tern: the prince who follows Lapin's bells to his true love and faces trials to win her,
Statos: Sarastro's right hand man and Mina's intended husband, and
Gayna: the orphan girl that Sarastro raised as his own daughter and who now has to face the fact that she will always be second in his affections.

Dokey weaves an enchanting spell around the reader. Her writing is as engaging as always, sometimes tongue-in-cheek funny, sometimes serious, always magical. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves fairy tales. The only fault I can find with it, is that it is too short, and I think a few things are rushed. Still, it's a must-read book.

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