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//**Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hales**//
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I put the video crawling in the dmedia type="youtube" key="vE0CbG8NS1M" height="344" width="425" align="left" ark to represent Dashtis' struggle while she was in the tower. The lyrics talk about how she struggles with her choices and wether or not she is doing the right things throughout the story. Then more of the lyrics talk about how she wants to know the ending of her story. Those lyrics make me think of how she must feel in the tower and once she escapes, how she never knows how anything will turn out.

media type="youtube" key="NxwOf6RZAAs" height="344" width="425" align="left" i put this video because the lyrics represent the realationships between some of the characters in the book. Some of the song reminds me of Lady Saren and her fathers relationship. Then another relationship the song reminds me of is Dashti and Lady Saren's relationship. The song reminds me of Lady Saren and her father beacause it was him who put her in the tower for her disobedience. I think of Lady Saren saying this to her father if she were to ever stand up for herself against his disapointment in her. I also think of the relationship of Lady Saren and Dashti because at one point in the lyrics the singer says " all i want to be is more like me and less like you", and this reminds me of how Dashti is forced to be Lady Saren's imposter and all she wants to do is be herself and stop the charade.





**__My Review__** I think this book is another work of art brought to life by Shannon Hale. As a reader of her books i was very happy with this new addition to her literary works. After //Princess Academy// i couldn't wait to read //Book of a Thousand Days.// The story is hear-warming and gives the happily ever after everyone expected, but gave it a great story while getting there. I reccomend this book to anyone who is a sucker for a cute romance and whoever loves a great story and character.


 * __Critique Reviews__**

"My very Favorite recent read." -Stephanie Meyer, author of //Twilight//

"This is another unforgettable book from one of today's most outstanding YA writers." -Teenreads.com

"Fans of Gail Carson Levine's //Fairest// will embrace this similar mix of exotic, fully realized setting; thrilling enchanted adventure; and heart-melting romance." -//Booklist//, starred review

**__Passages__**

"Lady Saren? After all these years to see you for the first time with Lord Khasar at the city walls..."

Saren shook her head. "It was different with him. It was as though he was naked to embarrass me. It was so strange of Khasar just stood there and laughedat my discomfort. So strange, and I was too afraid to do anything, even to look away. Then the last of the sunlight faded, and i realized why he'd taken off his clothes. It was so they wouldn't rip." She shook. "In he darkness he changed, Dashti. Right in front of me. Khasar changed from a man into a beast. A wolf."

During the tediously long ceremony, I was remembering when Tegus and I spoke through the tower and he'd said, " Would that I could take you out of here, and hold a feast and s dance, and see you decked on silver deel." And there just happens to be a deel in the wardrobe made of silver silk. I can't wait to see his face when he sees me in it. I plan to laugh and laugh and dance and maybe I'll kiss kiss him again, kiss my Kahn, right in front of the whole world.

Reasons for the first passage: I put this passage in because it;s a paramount moment in Dashti's story. This is when Lord Tegus is told she is Lady Saren and feels like he finally found what he always thought he'd lost. The moment is also high tension because the evil Khasar is at the city walls about to destroy everything and Dashti had to make a big choice, lie for her soul and probably be killed or marry Kahn Tegus, or tell finally tell the truth and be killed for breaking the law in the first place. Not very good odds for surrvival in either choices.

Reasons for passage number two: In this passage we finally see why Lady Saren has been petrified for so long. The passage is also the way Dashti saves the whole kingdom. The fact that they finally find a weakness in the invincible Lord Khasar was a huge piece of the books development and the transition to the ending of the book. The problem was solved from the bit of information that this passage provided.

Reason for passage number three: I included the third passage because it gives the book a happy ending and that's what everyone wants out of a story like this one. It also shows the reader how even though the girls were imprisioned in the tower some good came out the experience, Dashti and Kahn. Kahn and Dashti never would have fallen in love of the two girls hadn't been put in the tower Lady Saren would have been married to Lord Khasar and who knows where Dashti would have ended up in the mix of things.