Book review: A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine

My summary:

Elodie has reached the age where she has to go out in this world and get work. Elodie has a secret dream; she wants to be a manisoner, an actress. Things don’t quite work out the way Elodie would have wished but she finds herself accepting to be a dragons’ assistant instead.

We follow Elodie and Menoree, the dragon, as the are hired by the towns ogre to solve a mystery of a disappearing dog.

My thoughts:
I've never heard anything but good about Gail Carson Levine's writing and when the opportunity to read one of her books arrived I knew I had to read it. 


A Tale of Two Castles is such as sweet story and it can be enjoyed by people of almost all ages, all though I do believe that it is aimed for the youngest teens and tweens perhaps. Elodie is a smart and enjoyable main character, Menoree is a wise old dragon and the ogre has a heart of gold.

My only complaint would be that I wanted more when I've finished the book, but I discovered that there will be another adventure with these characters :D

Book trailer:

The cover:
No doubt about this one being a fantasy, I think it's nice.

My rating of this book:

4 stars out of 5

Want a second opinion? Check out these reviews written by some of my book blogging friends:
A Little Sun Shy
The Little Bookworm

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 A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine

Published: May 2010
Pages(paperback): 320
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren's
ISBN: 0061229652 (ISBN13: 9780061229657)
Full disclosure: Review copy from HarperCollins via Netgalley. 

This book can be purchased from a number of local retailers and on-line book stores such as Amazon or The Book Depository (I'm not an affiliate of either). The latter store does by the way have free shipping to about 100 countries.