Summary from GoodReads:

Heavy is the head—and the eyelids—of the princess who wears the crown…In Rosamund’s realm, happiness hinges on a few simple beliefs:

For every princess there’s a prince.

The king has ultimate power.

Stepmothers should never be trusted.

And bad things come to those who break with Tradition….

But when Rosa is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Determined to escape and save her kingdom from imminent invasion, she agrees to become the guinea pig in one of her stepmother’s risky incantations—thus falling into a deep, deep sleep.

When awakened by a touchy-feely stranger, Rosa must choose between Tradition and her future…between a host of eligible princes and a handsome, fair-haired outsider. And learn the difference between being a princess and ruling as a queen.

The moral of the story? Sometimes a princess has to create her own happy endings….

My Review:

I am so little-girl giddy over these books it’s not even funny.  I’m sure I’ve gone on and on about how much I love the unicorns to my friends and family so much that they would be happy  never to hear the word “unicorn” again – but people … this unicorn has a lisp! And I laughed so hard!

This story has so much in it – it’s a mix of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and several others, including Puss-n-Boots, Hansel and Gretal and The Frog Prince.  There are epic trials, dragons, sleeping princesses, mean dwarves and even some Norse mythology thrown in there.

This is one of my more favorite stories out of the bunch, and I was happy to read that there is a Five Hundred Kingdom’s short story out there too, because, frankly, I need more! Fantastic set of books for the fantasy lover and this series has made a Mercedes Lackey fan out of me for good.

Check out these review(s):

Medieval Bookworm

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