Title: The Enchanted Sonata

Author: Heather Dixon Wallwork

Page count: 375

Published: October 23^rd, 2018

Publisher:  Amazon

Genre: Teen/YA

Received: From Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  3.75/5

Summary:

Clara Stahlbaum has her future perfectly planned: to marry the handsome pianist, Johann Kahler (ah!) and settle down to a life full of music. But all that changes on Christmas Eve, when Clara receives a mysterious and magical nutcracker. 

Whisked away to his world—an enchanted empire of beautiful palaces, fickle fairies, enormous rats, and a prince—Clara must face a magician who uses music as spells…and the future she thought she wanted.

The Enchanted Sonata, a retelling of The Nutcracker Ballet with a dash of The Pied Piper, will captivate readers of all ages

My Thoughts:

I had seen this book on Netgalley after I had finished an ARC Review for WinterDream by Chantel Gadoury (Review here) since its in the same realm of being a telling of the Nutcracker and what perfect time to read it before Christmas.

When I read the synopsis of this one an it had said that it was intertwined with The Pied Piper, I thought that was an odd combo to put together but some how this book had completely enchanted me, and I couldn’t get enough of it.

This book is filled to the brim with magic.

On Christmas Eve Clara is given a Nutcracker doll and a book which she then is sucked into the magical land which reminds me of Alice and Wonderland where she is the one that needs to break the curse that has turned the soldiers and children into toys. Will she be able to do so? or is she stuck where she is? How will she get out?

While reading I was hoping that Clara would have been more exciting to me as a reader but she fell flat for me. She was a little on the boring side. (I hate to say that) everything that was happening with her an around her I thought she would have been more relatable or at least more interesting but I didn’t get that. The thing that kept me reading everything else about the story.