Daring Quest of Mystics

Shirley Cheng
Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc. (2003)
ISBN 1589395131
Reviewed by Sondra Fowler for Reader Views (2/06)

“Daring Quest of Mystics”, is an anthology of very short stories that centers around the life of Princess Sophia. Sophia is aided by the gifts given to her by mystic friend Dawn. The Princess and her gifts effortlessly fight against evil in every selection.

The stories are written with a wide eyed innocence and simplicity of plot that would be well suited to stories for young children’s story books. I can see these as bed time stories for the smallest of children as there is no tension, no real peril and everything is sweetness and light. There will be no monsters under the bed due to the reading of these stories.

The writing was descriptive. But I found the characters to be less than full bodied. They were more caricatures than characters and at times the complexity of language used in the text went far beyond the depth of the story.

There is a sweetness to these stories that to an adult seems unbearable to withstand but that should prove the perfect portion to a tiny princess tucked snuggly beneath a candy pink blanket.

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