Review: Tired and not funny at all
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
The "fractured fairy tale" is pretty well-established subgenre at this point and Lanier doesn't bring anything new to it.  Her heroine's bravado comes off as totally fake and the main theme of the book is how hot the prince is.  The constant reminders of how attractive he is are so blandly expressive and repetitive, especially since there doesn't seem to be anything else to their relationship.Too many jokes in the series depend on the heroine's knowledge of fairy tale characters and situations and this fatally compromises the mystery (and makes me question her intelligence since she spends most of the story chasing down false leads).