Sunday, August 30, 2020

Off the Bookshelf: ONCE MORE UPON A TIME, by Roshani Chokshi

 

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Major fun. Clever. New twist. One of those, "Yeah, that's what I always wondered," kind of stories. You know, where you get to the end and "And they lived happily ever after," just doesn't satisfy?

So what did happen to the middle son and one of the other princesses if they met up and married? Did you always wonder why it was the youngest son, youngest princess, the pig boy and not the prince who got the girl, and the older brothers and sisters got left out in the cold?

In this clever, far-too-short audiobook, a prince and princess meet in the aftermath of one of her sister's faerie tale weddings and think they're in love, and before the end of their own wedding they're under a curse. They don't just fall out of love, their love is stolen from them. Or so they think.

They lose their kingdom because, duh, one of the conditions of remaining king and queen of a kingdom with "Love" in the title is they have to be in love. Both of them are kind of battered and scarred and rebellious thanks to the side effects of other people's faerie tale lives, and they set off on a quest to get what they think they really want ... or is it?

Ever wonder if the faerie tales really told you the truth about the sweet, innocent princess and the clever prince, or the honorable talking animals and the faeries who come out of the forest shadows to help a lost, destitute, honorable young lad?

More please?


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