Bearskin is based off of a lesser known fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers called Bearskin. I had never heard the original story so I didn’t have anything to base the story off of going into it but I loved the story. The characters were all so different and very well developed so as the reader you feel you can understand them. The journey that each character goes on is intertwined with one another and that makes the book more interesting.
To start there was an Evil Queen, who wasn’t always so evil. She was power hungry and had magicked her way into a position where people feared her and served her without question. The Evil Queen was married to the once powerful King, whom she had turned into a weak coward, and they had three children, a daughter, Moiria from the Queen’s first marriage, a son Conrad, from the King’s first marriage, and a son Heppson who was the youngest and the only product of the King and Queen’s marriage. The Evil Queen wants to remain in power so she sets Heppson on a quest to secure her position but what she doesn’t account for is the love her children have for each other.
This is the start of a journey for each of the Princess and Princes. On this journey they meet Lark and Heart, two sisters who live in the woods far away from the castle. The sisters go on their own journey in the book while their love for each other is tested and new love forms for each of them. You will meet the Guardians of the Forest who can shift between human and animal form. Each has a special gift to help guide our friends on their journeys.
With all of these characters and journeys it is hard to imagine that all of their lives are intertwined but Jamie does an amazing job creating a story that shows all of these relationships. I was very impressed with the book. It is a young adult novel and it was so nice to read a young adult novel that I wouldn’t mind my daughter reading. There was no strong language or sexual scenes, a rarity in most literature these days. Even though this is a young adult novel, it is not juvenile and I feel like most adults would enjoy it.
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