In a time when the world was young and many things were quite commonplace that are now entirely forgotten, Sarastro, Mage of the Day, wed Pamina, the Queen of the Night. And in this way was the world complete, for light was joined to dark. For all time would they be joined together. Only the ending of the world could tear them apart. In other words, in the days in which my parents married, there was no such thing as divorce.....
Thus begins the tale of Mina, a girl born on the longest night of the darkest month of the year. When her father looked at her, all he saw was what he feared: By birth, by name, by nature, she belonged to the Dark. Do when Mina turned sixteen, her father took her away from shadow and brought her into sunlight. In retaliation, her mother lured a handsome prince into a deadly agreement: If he frees Mina, he can claim her as his bride.
Now, Mina and her prince must endure deadly trials--of love and fate and family--before they can truly live happily ever after.....
Sunlight and Shadow part of a collection of books written by a few different authors called The Happily Ever After series. Each book is a retelling of a classic story and this on is based on the opera The Magic Flute. I'm not a huge opera fan so I didn't know the story to begin with, but after reading the back cover I thought it sounded interesting.
I'm not sure that I really loved this story though.... I only gave it two stars on Good Reads. Each chapter is told from a different persons POV and it can be hard to know who is talking. There were a couple of times I had to go back and reread a few pages once I finally figured out who was actually telling the story at that particular moment. I also kind of felt time there was a lot of lead up to a kind of anti-climactic ending.
The book is short though and was a very easy read! And {spoiler alert} like the series implies.... they all live happily ever after!!
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