Goose Girl is a lovely faerie tale, there's nothing really like it, and yet it stands perfectly well on it's own. It's a marvelous faerie tale, and while magic is an integral part, it doesn't take over, and it's style is unique. Some people are born with the power of animal speaking, the ability to learn any animal language, while others have the power of people speaking, and their words carry special weight for those who hear them. Some, it is said, have the power of nature speaking, the ability to communicate with wind or fire or tree, but that's just a legend. The heroin is possesses the first of these, a self reliant person with common sense, the value of which cannot be underestimated.
She is a princess, betrayed and hiding under the guise of a goose girl, and she and the guard of the prince she was going to have married begin to fall in love. Then he leaves and doesn't come back, and though she knows he's alright, she misses him. Meanwhile, she has her own problems having to do with her usurper.
It works itself out magnificently in the end, with plenty of suspense on the way, and the truth wins out, which I just love. One of my favorite books.
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