❗️DISCLAIMER: If this is your first time reading a Melanie Dickerson book, I have suggestions at the bottom of this review that you should read instead. They are still by Melanie Dickerson and, in my opinion, are the better books of the Hagenheim series.❗️

I thought it was okay. I’ve read all of the Hagenheim-oriented books and loved most of them, but this one didn’t really “wow” me like they usually do. The plot felt a bit rushed and the characters didn’t have that much depth to them. Also, I felt like this whole book was just Kirstyn and Aladdin thinking about each other and questioning their relationship. That happened TOO. MUCH. But, even after this, Melanie Dickerson will still be one of my very favorite authors.

If this is the first book you’ve read of Melanie’s and you didn’t enjoy it, I suggest reading The Fairest Beauty, The Captive Maiden, or The Princess Spy, because, in my opinion, they are definitely some of her better stories. Or The Golden Braid... Or The Silent Songbird... Or The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest... you get the idea. 😂