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Bezig met laden... The Unhandsome Princedoor John Moore
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  garyrholt | Nov 5, 2020 |   Surprisingly entertaining, but definitely YA, no younger, thus points subtracted for the childish cover. Characters do wrestle with their choices, but still in a stylized fashion. It’s a fascinating mix of fairy tale tropes and modern sensibilities and realities. Thus, when Caroline, after methodically sifting the swamp for 7 weeks and finally finding the correct frog, has an unhandsome prince, she threatens to sue the estate of the sorceress who spelled him. Particularly good bits with the philosopher’s stone, which endows the holder with certain thoughts, and with Bungee, the city’s most respected sorcerer. Prince Jeff rivals Price Hal as my favorite. He specializes in honorable actions in the everyday world. (  ) 2wonderY | Feb 8, 2015 | moonsoar | Mar 3, 2006 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The author of Slay and Rescue turns the romantic fairy tale of the Frog Prince on its head in this comic fantasy adventure. Caroline's plan to live happily ever after has hit a snag. She's spent months mapping the swamp, building tadpole nets, and kissing every wriggling frog she could get her hands on, and one has finally turned into a prince. Unfortunately, Prince Hal is not, as promised in the fairy tales, particularly handsome. In fact, he's kind of dorky-looking. Hal himself isn't very eager to marry a girl so obsessed with appearances, but he finds that a lot of people have a stake in his impending nuptials--including a sorceress in training, an irritating dwarf, and Hal's own royal family, who seem to have misplaced large portions of the treasury. But the biggest reason for him to marry Caroline, true love be darned, is that if he doesn't, it's back to the lily pads for him--permanently . . . Praise for The Unhandsome Prince "Moore has a twisted take on fairytale cliches, which makes his work fun, unpredictable and a light-hearted read. The characters may seem like fairytale archetypes but they transcend the genre, coming close to broad winks at the reader without going over the line, even as the story accelerates steadily toward a satisfying (and, naturally, romantic) conclusion." --SFRevu "The plotting is solid, the pacing is pitch-perfect, and the heroes even more warm and likeable than they were in Heroics for Beginners." --SF Reviews "In this clever twist on the old fairy tale, Moore combines elements of The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Rumpelstiltskin into a fresh, modern whole." --RT Book Reviews Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I think the reason is that, silliness aside, you find that the main characters are in fact quite admirably moral: the kind of people you really want good things to happen to.
As other reviewers have noted, some of the humor is a bit dark, but not all of it. And even in the dark parts, where the characters are making questionable moral choices, one can still see why someone might actually do that without being evil at the core. Fortunately, that was only a relatively minor part of the plot. (