by Christopher Healy
Date Read: 5/3/16
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I had been looking for something else to listen to for my portion of my commute to work that I drive without carpooling. I like the more middle grade books because you don’t have to pay as close attention to them to keep up with the plot or catch key hints.
I am soo glad I listened to this one. This story was so much
fun! Everything was great – from the concept of the story (fairy tale twists),
to the writing (humorous), to the narrator.
I absolutely loved the twists on the fairy tales used in this book. The
four tales that are used are: Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow
White. Each of the princes in these stories are separated from their princess
for various reasons and bitter about the town bards (singers) who turned the
story around and didn’t even use their name – they are only known as “Prince
Charming”. They end up running in to each other and decide to become real
heroes.
This story was told with a lot of humor in it. It kept the
story light-hearted. I found myself
either laughing or smiling throughout much of this book. I felt it was a bit
longer than it needed to be, but overall I still give it 5 stars. I really
enjoyed it. Each prince had his own flaws and as the story unfolds you see how
these princes grow and how they embrace and use each other’s abilities to
defeat the bad guys.
The narrator did a great job. With so many characters it
could have been hard to keep them all straight; but he did a good job with
creating very distinctly different voices. He even had the princesses voices be
similar to their prince so you could keep track of who was who’s prince.
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