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Iron Hearted Violet (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Iron Hearted Violet - Audio CD - Unabridged
Author: Kelly Barnhill, Simon Vance (Narrator)
In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales. Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a pecu...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781619696006
ISBN-10: 1619696002
Publication Date: 1/15/2013
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4 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: AudioGO
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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ophelia99 avatar reviewed Iron Hearted Violet (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 2527 more book reviews
I listened to this on audiobook. It was an okay fairy tale about how being ugly on the outside doesnt mean you are an ugly person. I had some issues with the story and the narration.

I listened to this on audiobook and wasn't a huge fan of the narrator. All the women's voices sounded like men with clogged up throats.

This was a fairy tale like fantasy about Violent, an ugly young princess, who gets drawn in by an evil banished God. As a result she almost destroys the kingdom in her search for beauty. It's also the story about a King obsessed with a Dragon.

It is interesting how a storyteller narrates the whole story. I enjoyed the fairy tale feel to it. I loved the inclusion of dragons. The story ends with an interesting twist to it that will leave readers surprised and intrigued.

It does bother me a bit though how Violet is so beautiful on the cover of the book, yet throughout it a point is made to constantly described her ugliness. In the end it is the beauty of her personality that makes people love her, but I didn't enjoy the emphasis put on looks and how her main feature was her ugliness.

I didnt enjoy or engage with most of the characters in this book. The exception was Dimitri who is a stable boy who is trying to solve the mystery of why the things are going so horribly in the castle. He was an engaging and interesting character and also pretty much the only good character in the story.

Overall it was a decently done story and decently written, I just never really enjoyed the characters all that much. I did like the fairy tale feel to it and the twist at the end of the story. I didnt enjoy the inconsistency between the illustration and the description of Violet in the book. I personally wouldnt recommend this unless you are really into the ugly princess type of story.
ophelia99 avatar reviewed Iron Hearted Violet (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 2527 more book reviews
I listened to this on audiobook. It was an okay fairy tale about how being ugly on the outside doesnt mean you are an ugly person. I had some issues with the story and the narration.

I listened to this on audiobook and wasn't a huge fan of the narrator. All the women's voices sounded like men with clogged up throats.

This was a fairy tale like fantasy about Violent, an ugly young princess, who gets drawn in by an evil banished God. As a result she almost destroys the kingdom in her search for beauty. It's also the story about a King obsessed with a Dragon.

It is interesting how a storyteller narrates the whole story. I enjoyed the fairy tale feel to it. I loved the inclusion of dragons. The story ends with an interesting twist to it that will leave readers surprised and intrigued.

It does bother me a bit though how Violet is so beautiful on the cover of the book, yet throughout it a point is made to constantly described her ugliness. In the end it is the beauty of her personality that makes people love her, but I didn't enjoy the emphasis put on looks and how her main feature was her ugliness.

I didnt enjoy or engage with most of the characters in this book. The exception was Dimitri who is a stable boy who is trying to solve the mystery of why the things are going so horribly in the castle. He was an engaging and interesting character and also pretty much the only good character in the story.

Overall it was a decently done story and decently written, I just never really enjoyed the characters all that much. I did like the fairy tale feel to it and the twist at the end of the story. I didnt enjoy the inconsistency between the illustration and the description of Violet in the book. I personally wouldnt recommend this unless you are really into the ugly princess type of story.


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