After being imprisoned in a tower, a princess and her serving maid at last escape to find a changed world and danger at every turn.

That was a vague description huh? Well first of all have I mentioned I LOVE Shannon Hale? A couple hundred times? oh well let me say it again. I LOVE Shannon Hale!

Okay on to this book. First of all I got what my husband called "out of control" with this book. It's not a large book the kind I usually finish in a week, but I put off doing things I should have and read it in 2 days. It's a journal written by the lady's maid. It takes place in an oriental type landscape and traditions. It was wonderful. Obviously I never wanted to put it down. I want this girl as my friend and I fell in love with the Khan. What an amazing story taken from a vague Grimm Brother's story.

I think from now on I'll do the books quotes under the book review. That would make more sense huh?


"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

"You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

"Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

"I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

"They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. "
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)