The Bibliophile's Bookshelf

This month I have decided to change my Saturday Spotlight posts into a monthly series. The theme of December is cozy books. The first week was Heist Society, then The Princess Academy, and last week was Part of Your World. You can find these here, here, and here.

This week’s cozy book is Golden by Cameron Dokey. It is a Rapunzel retelling that is my absolute favorite.

I have read this book a number of times, and I read it to my sister as well.

It is such a good story and spins the classic tale nicely. In the book Rapunzel has alopecia and doesn’t even have hair nor has she ever had hair.

My favorite part of the story is that the witch isn’t a bad guy. She is a wonderful person, who adopts Rapunzel and raises her in such a loving environment.

I absolutely love this story and read it as much as I can. The curse on Rue can be a little confusing, at least to me. I have read this book quite a few times and I still don’t completely understand what happened. I still love it though.

This is such a cute, comforting read for me and, if you choose to read it, I hope you love it as much as I do!

Summary:

Before Rapunzel’s birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Rapunzel was born completely bald and without hope of ever growing hair, her horrified mother sent her away with the sorceress to an uncertain future. After sixteen years of raising Rapunzel as her own child, Melisande reveals that she has another daughter, Rue, who was cursed by a wizard years ago and needs Rapunzel’s help. Rue and Rapunzel have precisely “two nights and the day that falls between” to break the enchantment. But bitterness and envy come between the girls, and if they fail to work together, Rue will remain cursed…forever.