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This was an amazing end to the Princess trilogy... I loved how it went back to the beginning, with the world of King Under Stone coming back to haunt them... how everything begins to tie in and make sense... And as you can see by her cloak that it's taking on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood... and believe me I don't know how George does it but she sees the world in an amazing way and this retelling is like nothing I've ever read before... and I've read my fair share of fairy tales... she mixes in all the bits and pieces to give you this incredible adventure that will turn everything you've ever thought of the big bad wolf and a little old grandma right on it's head... and Petunia is such a great character, she's the runt of the bunch it seems but she's as strong willed and tough as the rest of them... even if all her sisters still think of her as that little 6 year old girl dancing the night away... I loved Oliver and how he's done all he can for his people and trying to fight to do the right thing even if it means he may be deemed a criminal by the King... I will say some of the princesses got a little irritating and it's like after all they've been through you'd think they'd be a bit stronger... which some of them are and so I guess it's all showing their different personalities and how everyone handles things differently... but Jonquil was a bit much in that department... a little of a downer that I kind of hated every scene she was mentioned in... if not for her this might have been a 5 star book... but luckily for the most part it's all Petunia and Oliver...

This may be a bit spoilerish but another thing that kept this from being a 5 star book for me is that it really made you feel sorry for the King Under Stones sons... in the first book King Under Stone is straight evil and you don't really feel sorry for him or even those princes that were killed in the battle to take him down... but this book spent a lot of time learning more about them and even showed Petunia feeling sorry for them and talking about how this had always been a part of her life and she never really felt scared of them... it gives them more dimension and a more human side when you see that they just hate being trapped in a sunless world... I almost had hoped that in the end they might have gotten something to perhaps bring them even the slightest bit of happiness... at least the one Petunia was supposed to marry because he did in his way almost seem to care... until the very end and all and I just don't see why George did spend so much time cultivating that if it was all going to come to naught...


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Princess of the Silver Woods Twelve Dancing Princesses Jessica Day George Books Reviews

Good read, though it's definitely part of a series though. I recommend you read the others first as there are many references to the heroine's elder siblings and their adventures before this one, though if you know the basic reference of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" then you won't be too lost if you don't, though this story does have it's own twist. I didn't read the others yet, but I plan to. Jessica Day George is very good at creating a fantasy world for folktales to come to life in.

I do have one beef with the progression of this romance though. The hero and the heroine only meet for a very short time, and not really very much happens between them for them to know much about the other, so even though our hero does feel obligated to help save the princess, it felt rather forced that he should fall for her so fast no matter how spunky or kind her demeanor might be.
As an avid consumer of novel adaptations of fairy tales and having read Jessica Day George's previous two Princess books, I was looking forward to this. Though I feel awkward criticizing her work since I've heard Day George as a guest on the popular podcast Writing Excuses (Google it!), I have to say I was very disappointed by this novel. A few specific problems

Pacing A detailed, minute-by-minute account would be followed by a sudden jump to several days later, during which, apparently, characters undertook an entire journey across the country. Don't get me wrong I don't need redundant detail of every mile covered a la George RR Martin, but a paragraph or two about the weather on the trip, a horse going lame, and a gruff innkeeper would at least make it feel like distance was covered and time passed. Furthermore, if this country is small enough that the characters can get from the border to the capitol city in a DAY, how is it possible that notorious bandits have successfully remained hidden in the forest for a decade? The attempted explanations of this are flimsy.

Exposition Character provides backstory (usually from the first two books), then someone approaches him to provide additional context (in a very straightforward, dull manner), then he recounts the full story in pretty much the exact same terms to someone else, who then relates the story to yet another person. The reader has to sit through every explanation that one character gives to another, even though we already know it, just to confirm that the information has been passed. Can I get a little less talk and a lot more action?

Dialogue Ouch. What happened? "Princess of Glass" had much better banter, probably because Poppy was a more compelling princess than Petunia. In fact, I think Day George was pining for Poppy a bit in the writing of this story, because Petunia comments several times in her inner monologue that her behavior "is more like something Poppy would do." Seems like Petunia's personality wasn't very well defined, so she came out more as a watered-down Poppy than as a unique character with her own story to tell.

On top of all this, I was finding glaring editing mistakes just pages into the book (mostly POV errors), so the whole venture feels rushed to me. I wouldn't say to avoid the book, but lowering expectations a bit is probably a good idea if you've read the first two.
This was an amazing end to the Princess trilogy... I loved how it went back to the beginning, with the world of King Under Stone coming back to haunt them... how everything begins to tie in and make sense... And as you can see by her cloak that it's taking on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood... and believe me I don't know how George does it but she sees the world in an amazing way and this retelling is like nothing I've ever read before... and I've read my fair share of fairy tales... she mixes in all the bits and pieces to give you this incredible adventure that will turn everything you've ever thought of the big bad wolf and a little old grandma right on it's head... and Petunia is such a great character, she's the runt of the bunch it seems but she's as strong willed and tough as the rest of them... even if all her sisters still think of her as that little 6 year old girl dancing the night away... I loved Oliver and how he's done all he can for his people and trying to fight to do the right thing even if it means he may be deemed a criminal by the King... I will say some of the princesses got a little irritating and it's like after all they've been through you'd think they'd be a bit stronger... which some of them are and so I guess it's all showing their different personalities and how everyone handles things differently... but Jonquil was a bit much in that department... a little of a downer that I kind of hated every scene she was mentioned in... if not for her this might have been a 5 star book... but luckily for the most part it's all Petunia and Oliver...

This may be a bit spoilerish but another thing that kept this from being a 5 star book for me is that it really made you feel sorry for the King Under Stones sons... in the first book King Under Stone is straight evil and you don't really feel sorry for him or even those princes that were killed in the battle to take him down... but this book spent a lot of time learning more about them and even showed Petunia feeling sorry for them and talking about how this had always been a part of her life and she never really felt scared of them... it gives them more dimension and a more human side when you see that they just hate being trapped in a sunless world... I almost had hoped that in the end they might have gotten something to perhaps bring them even the slightest bit of happiness... at least the one Petunia was supposed to marry because he did in his way almost seem to care... until the very end and all and I just don't see why George did spend so much time cultivating that if it was all going to come to naught...