To me, this one is a winner, with a slow start. It starts out sounding like a fairy tale. Ani, princess of Kildonry, learns about the the gifts of speech from her aunt: people speech, animal speech, and (possibly legend of) nature speech. Then her aunt teaches her how to speak birds' languages. The fairy tale part ends when the queen disinherits her after her father's death, and is sent of to Bayern to marry the prince of Bayern. Then, on the way, her guards turn against her, led by Celia, her lady in waiting, who decided to try to pretend to be her and marry the prince instead, and have her guards kill Ani. What will Ani's fate be? (dun dun dun duuuuun)
I liked how it mixed a fairy tale with an adventure. It makes it really interesting. The author did a good job writing it so I could picture it. Since I sort of think in pictures this is good for me. I do want to read more of Shannon Hale's book. The next book is about a different character from this story, Enna. Ani will probably show up in it because they were friends.
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