A review by bookwyrmknits
The Princess Game by Soman Chainani

dark fast-paced
  • Loveable characters? No

2.0

Despite being in a collection of "fairy tales for the here and now" this story is not anything like a fairy tale. A better comparison would be the movie "Seven" except using princesses instead of the seven deadly sins. I thought the interview-style format of the text was an interesting way to tell this story, though it did mean that I have very little idea what any of the characters look like, sound like, etc. I have no sense of them as more than caricatures. It was also amusing (at first) that all of the "princes" have names out of Disney movies.

Not my kind of story, though fans of thrillers may enjoy it.
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