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    Ogre Enchanted
    Ogre Enchanted
    Ogre Enchanted
    Audiobook7 hours

    Ogre Enchanted

    Written by Gail Carson Levine

    Narrated by January LaVoy

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    About this audiobook

    Set in the world of the Newbery Honor-winning Ella Enchanted, this tale by beloved author Gail Carson Levine stars a clever heroine who is determined to defy expectations—and outwit a fairy’s curse.

    Evie is happiest when she is healing people, diagnosing symptoms and prescribing medications, with the help of her devoted friend (and test subject) Wormy. So when Wormy unexpectedly proposes to her, she kindly turns him down; she has far too much to do to be marrying anyone. And besides, she simply isn’t in love with him.

    But a certain meddling fairy named Lucinda has been listening in, and she doesn’t approve of Evie’s rejection. Suddenly, Evie finds herself transformed from a girl into a hideous, hungry ogre!

    Stuck in this new and confusing form, Evie now has only sixty-two days to accept another proposal—or else be stuck as an ogre forever.

    Editor's Note

    Spellbinding…

    A spellbinding twist on “Beauty and the Beast” set in the world of Gail Carson Levine’s beloved “Ella Enchanted.” Evie rebuffs her friend’s marriage proposal, so the fairy Lucinda turns her into an ogre. Evie needs to fall in love in 62 days if she wants to be human again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9780062855619
    Ogre Enchanted
    Author

    Gail Carson Levine

    Gail Carson Levine's first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a Newbery Honor Book. Levine's other books include Ever, a New York Times bestseller; Fairest, a Best Book of the Year for Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and a New York Times bestseller; Dave at Night, an ALA Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults; The Wish; The Two Princesses of Bamarre; A Tale of Two Castles; Stolen Magic; The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre; Ogre Enchanted; and the six Princess Tales books. She is also the author of the nonfiction books Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly and Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink, as well as the picture books Betsy Who Cried Wolf and Betsy Red Hoodie. Gail Carson Levine and her husband, David, live in a two-centuries-old farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

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    • 5/5
      Loved this one but it still can no way be compared to Ella Enchanted, my all time favorite book!

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    • 3/5
      I liked but the fairy ANNOYS ME!!!! I would like it a bit better if they ease into bringing the most ignorant, egotistic, stupid, delusional fairy; but no bipadi bopadi boop boom the problem has begun. Even till the very end the fairy is still an idiot and is still out there destroying lives!!!! I still don’t understand why other fairies wouldn’t do anything to stop her or help. Seriously I strongly don’t like her and her wings should be stripped from her.... okay not wings but 100% her “oh so helpful magic”

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    • 5/5
      Very cute story. A fairy that is turned into a ogre. A quick read couldn't put it down till I was finished

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    • 5/5
      This book is awesome
      I seriously would recommend reading it!!!
    • 5/5
      The author has always known how to bring an enchanting story to life.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful spin on Beauty and the Beast, with a unique cast of characters and a storyline that you’ll want to come back to. Beautiful story.
    • 2/5
      I have enjoyed all of the other books I've read by Levine, (Fairest being my favorite) but this one I didn't much enjoy. It is the kind of story whose end you know by the end of the first chapter.
    • 4/5
      I wouldn't say it was my favourite GCL book but it was still very enjoyable. As ever the characters have so much depth and the protagonist's internal monologue is charmingly earnest and relatable. Some of the mechanics of the story leave you asking, "Well, why didn't they just do this?" at times. Even for fantasy it can be hard to suspend disbelief at a few plot details. Nevertheless, I found myself unable to stop listening even after I'd initially decided I would probably pass on it and not come back.
    • 5/5
      not everything has it seams its charming and rebal fairy!
    • 2/5
      This prequel to Ella Enchanted is charming, though it is not equal to Ella by a long shot. I enjoyed seeing more of the world that Ella will live in, especially our brief glimpse of the dragons. Sadly, the charm of this book was somewhat diminished by its discrepancies to Ella. Firstly I found out difficult to get my head around Char's father not being raised as a prince, though that's more a preference than a discrepancy. The real trouble was in two things. 1. The ogres in Ella didn't just sense their prey's emotions, they also knew their secrets just by looking at them. That was a huge pot I device in Ella, and once I realized that neither Evie nor any of her ogre band had it, I expected them to learn it with the magic spell they changed at the dragon's tooth, but alas, this never happened leaving a gaping mystery as to the ogres learned this skill in less than twenty years. 2. "Until she was his wife, Sir Peter was very sweet to Lady. I didn't trust him, but she wouldn't listen to me. Her family didn't approve because he was poor, etch which made Lady want him even more, she was that kind-hearted." Except for Mandy's mistrust of him, nothing else in this book matched what we knew of Sir Peter and Lady's courtship. Which is a real shame because this book could have been so much better had we not been expected to throw out the details of the first written and much better sequel to this book.
    • 4/5
      Evie is focused on being a healer and is surprised when her closest friend, affectionately known as Wormy, proposes marriage to her. But she is confounded when a fairy appears and turns her into an ogre for rejecting the proposal. Evie has only a couple of months to convince someone to love her despite being an ogre (and the magic stops her or anyone else from saying she's really a human transformed) and for her to love that person back -- or else she'll stay an ogre forever.To start with, I must admit that I'm not the hugest fantasy fan nor a big fairy tales fan. So this book is clearly not designed with me as a target audience. I felt like the beginning when Evie is trying to learn persuasion from the other ogres and then travelling to the dragon's spires was very slow going. Once she is among people again, the story definitely perked my interest more. And, once she goes to the royal court and the cast -- and the intrigue -- gets wider, I was hooked. However, since I had already ploughed through about 100+ so-so pages, that takes away from the book's appeal and my likelihood to recommend it.Also, this book is designed for children, but the central focus is about marriage and romantic relationships. I kind of thought the point of writing modern fairy tales was to get away from that. While Evie is initially not interested in marriage, only her healing career, the spell forces her to spend almost all of her thoughts on marriage -- constantly assessing every man she meets to see if she could be persuaded to love him and he could be persuaded to love her. I'm not really keen on recommending this to young girls as a result. Even if Evie does show many great characteristics (e.g., intelligence, caring, bravery, etc.), it was off-putting that the book was so focused on marrying off all the principal characters. This book is a prequel to Ella Enchanted, but it doesn't seem necessary to have read that novel first. (I did not read it, although many years ago I saw the movie based on it, which apparently was not very similar to the book anyhow.) Some of the characters are the same, so fans of that book might get a kick out of this as a result. Again though, it didn't feel like I was missing out on any knowledge by not having read that book before this one.
    • 3/5
      {Prequel of 1+4: Enchanted series. Children’s, fantasy} (2018)This is prequel to Levine’s Ella Enchanted (which I gave four and a half stars for) and I must confess to being not quite as enchanted with this book. Evie (Evora) is fifteen years old and happy working as a healer (though I wouldn’t, personally, try her remedies at home unless you happen to like snail slime or cat saliva) with the help of her best friend Wormy (Warwick) until the day he’s egged on by the ... um ... good fairy Lucinda (who also causes Ella’s discomfiture in the other story) to propose to her. As Evie is a sensible girl who has seen what happens when folks around her married too early, she says no so Lucinda transforms her into an ogre with sixty two days to receive and accept a marriage proposal.And so Evie travels the kingdom torn between her human and ogre natures, trying to find a solution to her dilemma and unable to resist healing people, ogres and animals along the way. Although Evie (and Wormy) are fifteen years old, I would put the target audience at around eight to ten years old. I was impressed that Evie had the good sense to want to be her own person and hoped all the way that she would find another way around her curse. For all the ways it could have gone, I was a bit disappointed by several aspects of the ending.2.5-3 stars ***
    • 4/5
      Pros: fun characters, lively story Cons: Evie loves healing people and her favourite patient is her best friend, Wormy. But at 15 she thinks they’re both too young to marry, so when he proposes she says ‘no’. They’re both shocked when an angry fairy turns Evie into an ogre because of it. Now Evie has 62 days to find true love or she’ll remain an ogre forever. This book takes place in the same worlds as Ella Enchanted, one generation before the events of that novel. I loved Evie. She’s smart and determined. And she has a lot to learn about people, and love, and not much time in which to learn it all. The book is fast paced and lively. I enjoyed learning more about the ogres and how they interact with each other. I was a little sad seeing Lady Eleanor, considering how her story ends, though I thought the author handled her inclusion well. As an adult I would have liked some commentary on how using a love potion or persuasive magic to get someone to fall in love with you is morally wrong (and won’t bring you happiness as you’ll always be afraid of the effects wearing off). On the whole it was a fun read.
    • 4/5
      This enchanting fairy tale is set in the same magical kingdom of Frell and is a prequel to the award winning Ella Enchanted. And like Ella Enchanted the plot if filled with ogres and fairies, and another amazing heroine. Light and fun this is a perfect story for middle graders who love a fairy tales with villains who can be thwarted with unexpected heroes.