Book Review: Bella At Midnight

Hello Reader!
      This post is about one of my all time favorites! This book is called Bella At Midnight, and this book is my favorite of the author's work, with a few others close behind! WARNING: If you get into reading her books, as I did, do not read the book called Saving Sky. It was terrible! *shudder* Anyways, I hope you enjoy reading this, find it interesting, or even look up the book and read it yourself!
                 Enjoy!


Bella At Midnight
Diane Stanley


 

Title: Bella At Midnight
Author: Diane Stanley

   This wonderful book is about a girl, named Bella, who grows up in a peasent home. She was brought there because her mother died giving her birth, but her "family" neglects to tell her till she is sixteen, when her aunt comes to whisk her off into an unknown world and holds the shocking news that her father, a knight, has completely forgotten and abanded her till now. Well she grows up hard-working, illiterate, and poor, but healthy, happy and with a best friend - a prince!
   
    Now the royal prince had recently been raised, till three years old, at the house of the peasant family too, before Bella. It's kind-a hard to explain in a short amount of words, but they grow up, as long as both of them can remember, being best friends. But when Prince Julian is amongst his friends, and he sees Bella and is surprised that he is ashamed to know her. Trying so hard to be respected among the rowdy crowd, he betrays his true friend. When he looks back she is gone. Rushing to her house to apologize, he runs into a messenger that holds urgent news: Julian is to be a peace offering in a hostage exchange with a neighboring, rivalrous country. No time to say another word, he regrettably rides off, his last farewell to Bella the bitter betrayal of his pride.

    Bella, who finds out her name is really Isabel, goes off to live a neglected life in a dreary castle, her cruel father always scowling, her stepmother treating her as peasant scum. One of her stepsisters, who goes to the Queen's Court, is selfish, proud, and haughty, the other silently mourns her real father's death, never saying a word. She is imprisoned in her mind and stares off into nothing all day. The only light in the place was the cook, who treasures Bella and teaches her to read.

   One day Bella's court going stepsister catches news of a plot which will go against the treaty and kill the hostage price- Julian! Bella goes hysteric, and as soon as she can rushes out to warn her childhood friend, who betrayed her and hasn't spoken to her for three years! But it is still her friend.

   As you can see I'm going to tell you this whole book! Agg! I neither have time nor you, I'm sure!
So I will wrap this up with saying, "Find out how this ends when your read the book!" lol

     May the LORD bless you!
                                                    -Julia L.