![]() ![]() ![]() The novel starts to slow down after Bertie and her troupe of players run into a traveling circus, however, and the ending was simply a mess. This only seems to complicate things, however, as Beatrice is constantly pulled from place to place in her search for Nate, her father, the Sea Witch, and cake for the fairies. Although Bertie is out of the Théâtre and in "the real world," it's a world that is just as magical and fantastic as the one she left, and she still has the power to change it by writing her stories. Both Nate (Bertie's kind-of boyfriend who is a pirate and has a single line in the The Little Mermaid) and Bertie's long-lost father make an appearance well before page fifty, and things keeping moving at a breathless pace for most of the book. ![]() And isn't the cover gorgeous? Perchance to Dream starts shortly after Beatrice, Ariel-the air spirit from The Tempest-and the fairies who are Bertie's best friends leave the Théâtre Illuminata, and it begins with a bang. Although I didn't think it was quite as good as Eyes Like Stars, it was still a fast, fun story that left me feeling like I'd barely caught my breath before something else happened. I adored Lisa Mantchev's first book, Eyes Like Stars, and was SO happy when Pam from generously offered to let me borrow an ARC of the next book in the series, Perchance to Dream (a gigantic thank-you to her, by the way:). ![]()
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