Review: Good start to a promising series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2013
Prince Charming Must Die is a short book, but it packs a lot of action and character development into 91 pages. I love fairy-tales, and as an added bonus this book also includes some classic fairy-tales which I particularly enjoyed.Alice is a strong, likeable main character, smart, savvy and sensible shes also has a wickedly sarcastic sense of humour which I particularly enjoyed.The writing is clear and to the point, without over-simplifying the story, and I hold a particular fondness for the talking rabbit (I want one of my own!). The plot is simple - Alice finds out that she is the hero, chosen to save the world from the Corrupted and armed with only a pen (albeit a magical pen), she finds herself thrust into a strange world that is a cross between reality and fairy-tale with a boyfriend who just seems a little too perfect to be true.Prince Charming Must Die is the first part of a series focusing on different fairy-tales and I'm really looking forward to the next installment, and seeing Alice develop along the way!My one and only very minor disappointment was a slightly rushed feeling in one of the key scenes toward the end of the story - I can't tell you what it was without a spoiler, but a little more development would have made this a 5-star read!