Book# 15

Water Song by Suzanne Weyn
194 pages
Popular Fiction
This is another one of the "Once Upon a Time" series that I love. This one is a retelling of "The Frog Prince". It takes place during World War Two in Belgium, I think. It has accurate World war two information and the taking of the estate that the girl, Emma, lives is acctually true the author even includes a passage about it..."Britsih forces continued to push the Germans back a few hundred yards at a time toward the high ridge at Passchendaele. The Germans fought back with mustard gas, a notoriously slow-acting chemical agent that maimed or killed enemy soliders via severe blisters on the skin or internally if breathed. . . .The British reached Passchendaele on October 12 during a driving rain that turned the landscape to impenetrable mud." So the story goes that Emma is alone in her mothers estate after she got blown up in a German bombing with only the two old caretakers. She is on a ridge and below her are the trenches and fighting of the war. She has a golden locket that is a perfectly round ball and she gets frusterated and throws it down the well. Meanwhile in the trenches the Germans use mustard gas on the British and one Ameican soilder, Jack makes it out by holding his breathe and running into Emmas well. The next day she freaks out because the locket was a family heirloom and held the only picture of her parents, so she decides to retrieve it but instead she finds Jack. His face is swollen and blistery and she compares him to a frog. When they get out of the well they are surrounded by German soilders, Emma tells them that they are married and that Jack is not a soilder so the soliders will not kill them. Both of them are taken hostage because the Germans will be using the estate for a base. Jack and Emma do not get along but she helps him get better so he can go down to get her locket for her just like in the original. So he gets it back for her and they start to become closer. In the rest of the book they go through adventures with spying, healing, escaping, and discovering secrets about each other. There is a lot in this one so thats all the detail i'm going to go into because I strongly dislike typing.