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The Healer's Apprentice

By: Melanie Dickerson
Narrated by: Jude Mason
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A realistic, fast-paced reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale full of royalty, romance, and danger. This masterful combination of love and heartbreak - combined with the novel’s surprise ending - is everything fans of fantasy, historical, and medieval fiction yearn for.

Rose has been appointed as a healer’s apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter’s daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the aging bachelor her mother has chosen for her - a bloated, disgusting merchant who makes Rose feel ill.

When Lord Hamlin, the future duke, is injured, it is Rose who must tend to him. As she works to heal his wound, she begins to understand emotions she’s never felt before and wonders if he feels the same.

But falling in love is forbidden, as Lord Hamlin is betrothed to a mysterious young woman in hiding. As Rose’s life spins toward confusion, she must take the first steps on a journey to discover her own destiny.

The Healer's Apprentice:

  • An award-winning historical romance - a creative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale - by author Melanie Dickerson
  • Perfect for listeners ages 13-18 and adults who enjoy historical romances similar to Eva Ibbotson’s
  • A romantic, fast-paced story - sure to entrance fans of fairytale retellings
©2015 Melanie Dickerson (P)2015 Zondervan
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This book was okay

I liked the story until the last few chapters. I liked the interaction of the hero and heroine in the beginning, but towards the end of the book the story started to drag and almost became ridiculous. I found myself just wanting to skip to the end just to get it over with. It was disappointing, because the story started out so well.

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Loved it

I love how wholesome the story is. This is by far the best retelling of Sleeping Beauty and I love love love that it's a Christian retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
The narrator did her job well... A+

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that they were so realistic and faithbased

I loved how they were faith based and I don't have anything that I didn't like loved the book

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Creative!

What a beautiful retelling of Sleeping Beauty! I enjoyed this very much and I look forward to sharing this book with my daughters when they're older!

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Had potential...with a different narrator

I read this book, and all the books in the series, and I loved them all; I have loved reading each and every one of Melanie Dickerson's books, in each series. However, I was very disappointed by the narrator. Her voice itself was okay in general, but she used almost no different voices or tones to differentiate between characters. Switching voices for each character is kind of the point of narration, in my opinion. Not to be mean or disrespectful to Jude Mason, but I wish they had maybe used someone like Cassandra Campbell or Julia Whelan, both of whom do an amazing job at giving each character a unique voice.

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Loved

I loved this book. How Melanie brought the evil into the book but showed us how to rid him in Jesus name.

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Christian fantasy

A very Christian take on fantasy without much depth. Predictable. I think you can figure out the whole story from the description.

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God wants a Pure &Holy relationships for All💥💌👍

A MUST READ Story filled with Sacrificial LOVE and Honors God's Word. Awesome Story!!!

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A faith filled story

Although some may consider that the Lords name seems to be used in vain on a few occasions, the two main characters are strong and faithful people. It is obvious that the writer did her research and the mix of history with a fairytale feel is quite nice.

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Best story in the series.

I like this story the best out of this series. I think it is well reserched.

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