Cute, campy fun. I'd say fluffy, but Fluffy is the dragon. The author takes all the romance and high fantasy tropes and exaggerates them to ridiculous proportions, very amusing if you're into that kind of thing. I know I didn't plan to read any further in this series, but my library acquired this book three and I found myself hitting the “place hold" button against my better judgement.
There is plenty of family drama, the kingdom still needs saving, Prince Alexander Kingsley is still a frog, and Evie and Trystan are still gazing longingly at each other. In this book, though, they are not alone in their pining. Maehrer is setting up couples among many of the Villain's inner circle. So there's plenty of love in the air and it's distracting people from more important matters. Or maybe vice versa.
The pace is rather frantic, as befits a farce. Evie and Trystan don't have much free time to agonize over their relationship status, but they somehow manage to multitask—stage rescues while admiring one another, for example. Maehrer gives the whole set up a firm twist in the final chapters, turning my ideas of where things were going on their head. Apparently she has one more volume planned, but as she states in the last line: “You never know with these nincompoops.”
I've come across a series I think you might enjoy; Beth Brower's The Uncollected Journals of Emma M Lion. It is currently a series of 8 books set in London 1872, light and humorous historical fiction with a touch of magic. Each volume better than the last as you come to learn ever more about the characters of St Crispin London. It's available on Kindle Unlimited. I took Amazon up on a free month of KU to read them, and then, went and bought the paperback versions. That good.
ReplyDeleteMake that "The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion" not Uncollected. Duh.
DeleteThanks, Charles. Calgary Public Library has several of these available as audiobooks and I am adding them to my poor groaning TBR. They sound like they are right up my alley!
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