This was a delightful retelling of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" fairytale, with some religious, political, and gender-role undertones to make for good discussion. 
 Favorite quote: 
 "Everything was black. Or dark purple. Or midnight blue. There were occasional flashes of silver: the lamps, some silver gilt on a few of the chairs. But other than that, everything was dark, the colors of shadows and spiders and twilight."