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Merrie Haskell

The Princess Curse

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Merrie Haskell’s middle-grade fantasy novel Princess Curse is an imaginative retelling of the fairy tales The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Beauty and the Beast.
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Sylvania, the prince offers a fabulous reward to anyone who cures the curse that forces the princesses to spend each night dancing to the point of exhaustion. Everyone who tries disappears or falls into an enchanted sleep.
Thirteen-year-old Reveka, a smart, courageous herbalist’s apprentice, decides to attempt to break the curse despite the danger. Unravelling the mystery behind the curse leads Reveka to the Underworld, and to save the princesses, Reveka will have to risk her soul.
Princess Curse combines magic, suspense, humor, and adventure into a story perfect for fans of Gail Carson Levine.
239 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
Publisher
HarperCollins

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  • dariadiashared an impression5 years ago
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    An unusual and very nice take on the 12 Princesses' tale. And, finally, some reasonable explanation on how the King/Prince had so many daughters in the first place, illegitimate. But I really wish there was a second book about Reveka visiting Thanos for the next 5 years, learning about the zmeu and actually marrying him in the end. This sooo should be a series!

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    • dariadiahas quoted5 years ago
      I made an impatient gesture, hoping he could see it. “You’re a lord. Of. A really dark realm.”

      “It is the Underworld. Southeast of us is Elysium; southwest, Tartarus. This is Thonos, which is the name of the realm, the name of this mountain, and the name of my castle. And when you are its Queen, I will be your King.”

      Not merely a lord, but a king? “If you had told the princesses that one of them could become a queen, Maricara would have married you on the first day you asked,” I said. “Even if this is Hell.”
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