Series: Hagenheim By Melanie Dickerson

Summary:

Fairy tales, romance, and the great medieval time. Castles, Lords, princes, and princesses. This series takes beloved fairy tales and rewrites them placing them in the medieval time period, transforming them into realistic stories thrilling all young female readers. The characters within this series discover through their adventures and individual struggles with faith who they are and what they give to the world. They discover the importance of faith and how to focus on the light in a cruel, dark world. Sword fights, family feuds, enemies, mysterious characters, and forbidden love. If your a fan of danger, adventure, romance, and royalty this series is for you. Favorites like Mulan, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel are rewritten into captivating stories you can believe will happen to you.

Word of Caution:

This series is a fairy tale romance, so expect lots of kissing and romantic scenes. Also, as fairy tale stories often go, the books will often end with a marriage and a scene where the newlywed couple sneaks away to their chamber.

Some other content to be aware of include blood, sword fights, kidnapping, gruesome injuries, wars, violent animals, and other medieval content.

Positive Notes:

The series is a great reimagining of classical fairy tales. It is captivating and fulfilling to romance lovers. The author is Catholic, so the books are clean. Additionally, there are a lot of values from the Catholic/Christian perspective including blessings, miracles, truthfulness, thankfulness, defying evil, etc.. These novels are captivating, beautiful, and a refreshing read.

Who:

Great for girls who enjoy fairy tale romances but are over the age of 13 because of the romantic scenes and slightly gruesome medieval content.

Books:

This series contain 11 books that follow a timeline, so I recommend reading them in order if you want to understand the family tree. However, I didn't read them in order, and the books do stand on there own. So here are some of my favorite titles to get you started.

The Healer's Apprentice (based on the story of Sleeping Beauty and also #1 in the series), The Golden Braid (based on the story of Rapunzel), and The Warrior Maiden (based on Mulan).