![]() ![]() Usually the father of the twelve dancing princesses wants the curse broken because he just loves his daughters so much. ![]() The book’s biggest strength is the imagination behind the plotline. It will not sound familiar no matter how many retellings the reader has encountered before. Haskell has not simply expanded or filled in the holes of a well-loved story, but has used the main plot idea to write a book that is a story very much its own. Reveka and Dragos, lord of the Underworld, are too complex to belong in a standard fairy tale, and their motives are often politically and rationally inspired, which is unusual for the genre. The effect is that the story reads very much like fantasy, but not always like a fairy tale. ![]() This creative decision leads the focus of the story away from the princesses and onto Reveka, who is clever if not beautiful and fair if not always kind, and onto the prince who cast the curse in the first place. Review: The Princess Curse is a very original retelling of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” as the character striving to unravel the curse is not a dashing young man, but rather a spunky thirteen-year-old herbalist’s apprentice. Reveka, the apprentice of the castle’s herbalist, thinks she can find a way to make herself invisible and break the spell, even though everyone else who has tried has disappeared or fallen fast asleep. ![]() Summary: Twelve princesses suffer from a curse where they wake up every morning tired and with their shoes in tatters. ![]()
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