The Goose Girl is one of those books that is hard to put down once you’ve been drawn into the story. The plot is fairly straightforward–it’s a retelling of a Grimm’s fairytale in which a princess is sent to marry a prince whom she’s never met, for the sake of uniting their kingdoms. But this tale isn’t completely predictable. There are several good twists and turns, and when the villains appear, they are truly bad. I enjoyed this book even more than Hale’s Newberry winning book – Princess Academy.