The Princess series, Book One
In all the old fairy tales, after the scary things are over and the good guys have won, they always end with the words "and they lived happily ever after". You know what? That's not true, as Danielle Whiteshore, also known as Cinderella, could tell you. A few months after her "happily ever after", everything goes to pieces. Teeny, tiny, very interesting, really COOL pieces. One of her stepsisters comes to the palace to kill Danielle, somehow has magic, and before escaping reveals that Charlotte and Stacia (the stepsisters) have kidnapped Prince Armand. One of the servants, Talia, saves Danielle, and turns out to be not only Sleeping Beauty and an extremely good fighter, but one of Queen Beatrice's secret agents, the other being Snow (White, as I'm sure you guessed). Snow knows magic, although she doesn't like being called a witch, and is a incorrigible flirt. After a few more revelations (Danielle is pregnant, her mother's spirit lives in a tree, Snow calls the queen Queen Bea, Snow's real name is Princess Ermillina Curtana, and Armand is probably in Fairytown) they set off to rescue the prince. As Danielle says "Well, it was my turn."
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! Seriously, this is one of the most original fairy tale mash-ups I have ever read. SO INCREDIBLY AWSOME! I loved the translation of Fairytown's real name, and here I will quote Snow: "The fairies name means something like 'Home away from home, trapped between two big rocks and surrounded by tasty mushrooms that make you feel like you're turning into a puddle.' But 'Fairytown' is shorter." LOVE SNOW LOVE TALIA LOVE DANIELLE! Do not love Charlotte or Stacia, although Queen Rose is a cool villain. Anyway, it's a really good book that you should read.
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