A review by americandesi
Of Princes and Promises by Sandhya Menon

lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Rahul, naam toh suna hoga? Except no one cares about Rahul the wallflower here.

 

Things that went through my mind while reading this:

They’re 17? They’re 17-ish, sorta 18.

I think I need to review the frog Prince

 

About a third of the way through this, I wasn’t really feeling it. And then the self-hating really came into play and I wondered where this would lead. Who are these new characters, what is happening? And then a plot twist that I probably should have seen coming, but it got me anyways. And basically I absorbed the rest of the book in a couple hours.

 

Anyways, generally quite good. Up to the standard of Sandhya’s other books. The stuff that the characters think or do sometimes feels a little underbaked or trope-y, but it’s a fairy tale retelling and it’s teenagers, so it works. The next book better have Rahul showing up in Family pictures.