The next two books were basically continuations of the adventure, adding the Little Mermaid and Red Riding Hood to the mythos. The first book was novel mostly for the premise: Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty turned into real, flesh-and-blood characters, not fairy tales but actual princesses with plausible backstories with just enough connection to the "fairy tale" version to make it understandable how the legends started.
Jim Hines's Princess series is enjoyable light fantasy, the sort of thing that will appeal to fans of the early Xanth series (before Piers Anthony got really skeevy), but with more self-awareness. It is a power that turns even friends and lovers into mortal foes one that will threaten humans and fairies alike. The demon's magic distorts the vision of all it touches, showing them only ugliness and hate. y.o.u.n.g._.a.d.u.l.t._.f.i.c.t.i.o.When a spell gone wrong shatters Snow White's enchanted mirror, a demon escapes into the world.At the heart of the conflict between humans and fairies stands the woman Roudette has been hired to kill, the only human ever to have fought the Lady of the Red Hood and survived-the princess known as Sleeping Beauty. Her mission will take her to the country of Arathea and an ancient fairy threat. Roudette is the hunter now, an assassin known throughout the world as the Lady of the Red Hood.
But sometimes the path leads to dark places. Her mother told her she would be safe, so long as she kept to the path. Far more than a modernized retelling, Hines's work is a real synthesis of cultural tropes into a unique world that is worth visiting again and again.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. When the prince's mother sends infamous shape-shifting assassin Roudette (Red Riding Hood) after her, Roudette, Talia, and fellow princess-adventurers Danielle (Cinderella) and Snow (Snow White) make an uncomfortable alliance against the real enemies: the capricious fairy powers who have kept Arathea under their control for over a hundred years. Warrior princess Talia (Sleeping Beauty) killed the prince who raped her while she slept, and then fled the desert land of Arathea.
The third of Hines's reimagined princess tales (after The Stepsister Scheme and The Mermaid's Madness) transcends its predecessors with exciting combat scenes and emotionally complex characters.
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