![]() Amarande’s councillors are inclined to leave her out of the decision-making. The neighbouring kingdoms (perhaps vassal-kingdoms is a more accurate description) all have some very strong ideas about who Amarande should marry Amarande herself wants to change the law so that she can rule alone, but besides that, she definitely doesn’t want to marry until she has established that any prospective husband wasn’t the person who killed her father. The story begins with the death of Princess Amarande’s father, possibly by accident, but more likely by poison, and the revelation that the law of the land does not permit Amarande to rule alone, but instead requires her to marry in order to inherit the throne. ![]() It also hits almost every dramatic beat from The Princess Bride, while being entirely its own story. The Princess Will Save You has, as William Goldman puts it, “Fencing. Certainly, that was my reaction when I saw this title appear on NetGalley.Īnd if genderswapped Princess Bride is what you are looking for in a book, you will not be disappointed. I’m pretty sure that if I start by saying ‘genderswapped Princess Bride where the Princess rescues the stable boy’, about half of you won’t read any further in this review because you will be too busy one-clicking the book. ![]() Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young AdultĬontent warning: Torture of a main character. ![]()
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