~ Goodreads Monday: A Dance with Magic (The Twin Kingdoms #2) ~

This is a weekly meme where any one can choose a random book from their Goodreads TBR and highlight it. Once you choose a book and create your post, make sure you link and reference the creator, @Lauren’s Page Turners. Eventually, I will try to find a rhyme or reason to my choices, but for now, each week will feature a random one that I mean to read soon!

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This Week’s Selection:

A Dance With Magic (The Twin Kingdoms #2) by Nancy O’Toole

The chance for freedom

Rebecca has lived a life of restrictions. Once a scared princess, ruthlessly controlled by her older brother, she now finds herself inheriting a kingdom that never expected to have a queen. Facing the possibility of engagement to a man she cannot stand, Rebecca takes her first chance of freedom: an enchanted masquerade located beneath a trap door.

The loyal soldier

Zahir has lived a life of loss. A peerless swordsman and trained fighter, he once fought for his country. Now he only raises his blade in defense of one: his queen and dearest friend, Rebecca. But secretly, his feelings expand beyond friendship. It will take all of Zahir’s skill to protect Rebecca from the true purpose of the masquerade, a force more sinister and older than either of them expect.

Or may be able to survive. 

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After greatly enjoying the author’s retelling of Beauty and the Beast in the first novel, The Rose and the Claw, I was excited to get my hands on the second novel. A Dance with Magic is a retelling of Grimms’ The Twelve Dancing Princesses. I like that both novels are retellings. I hope that this story follows a similar pattern to the first where it is a unique take on the source material rather than a straight-forward retelling. These novellas are short, so, again, I hope that this one follows the first as there was a lot packed into the pages to give it the full-novel-feel.