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Also, someone suggested making a list of books with arranged marriages. I think that's a great idea! From now on I'll do it in the Plotrospection post, but lets do it here now. I'll list a couple:
Ice, by Sarah Beth Durst
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
What others?
The King of Attolia had a somewhat arranged marriage.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Now it's going to drive me crazy if I can't think of any.
ReplyDeleteI think Book of a Thousand Days (Shannon Hale) had an arranged marriage of sorts...I'm trying to remember.
And the Looking Glass Wars deals with it a little (in the sense that Alice dreads having to marry the Jack of Diamonds when she grows up)...but then her whole family gets killed so that all sort of goes away.
Do any of those count? I'll try to think of better ones...
The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
ReplyDeleteDragonfly by Julia Golding
The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle (marriage against will)
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl
Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale(deciding who will be in the arranged marriage)
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale(promised in marriage to another)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Nobody's Princess/Nobody's Prize by Esther Friesner
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Legacy by Cayla Kluver
The Heavenward Path by Kara Dalkey
Daughter of the Flames by Zoe Marriott?
Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon?
Maid Marian: A Novel by Elsa Watson
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Shabahu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libbra Bray
The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis (Lucy)
Anahita's Woven Riddle by Meghan Nuttall Sayres
Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
That's all I can think of at the moment (that took a while, but like I said, I have a fascination with this subject). I notice a lot of them deal with arranged marriages just by running away from them. Oh, and will this link suffice for your contest? ;)
Chinese Cinderella
ReplyDeleteThe Smile- Donna Jo Napoli
The Luxe series- Anna Godbersen
Princess Ben= Catherine Gilbert Murdock
That's all I came up with that hadn't already been said. Heather covered everything else I had in mind. :)
SECRET KEEPER by Mitali Perkins. I loved that book!
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