the princess will save you sarah henning

It had all the elements of good storytelling for me: wonderful writing, ship-worthy romance, political intrigue, and action.

The Princess Will Save You was a wonderfully done retelling of the Princess Bride. Thank you thank you thank you Tor Teen for sending me a copy of this!!!

I can see how the story is going to resolve so I'm not sure if I wanna read the second book. I started this one after seeing mostly good reviews so I was full of anticipation but am disappointed. The ending was on a cliffhanger but also very sudden (like, I'm not sure if it's necessary). In the end, I just skipped and roamed through the pages at the end (after the 70% mark) because I just couldn't find myself fully committing. I said whereeeeee? The author should give some detailed establishment between the two, other than keep on mentioning that they're friends since diapers.Īnother thing I wasn't kin of is how this book is getting so predictable. For all I know, Luca was kidnapped and suddenly, the two of them are true lovers. Their romance was flat and their interactions always felt cautious and polite it does not ring the word lover for me. Not to mention, this book provides very little context to Ama and Luca's relationship, which is why I don't think the two have that much chemistry going on. In a way, it does feel realistic but due to the overdone 'empowering' female character, I find the end product to be futile. I get the idea that she was trained to fight but never had any real-life death experience, which explained her hesitation during the battle. Renard found them, threatened them and Ama easily agreed to marry him after all the trouble just because she knew she can't fight to kill them. From the start, the author has been describing Ama as this ruthless and fearless princess, only to not meet the expectation towards the end. I find none of the characters revolutionary. I was reading and waiting for the story to develop but it was painfully deliberate. It felt almost repetitive every time and making it hard for me to get into. The Princess Will Save You has 53 short chapters sure, but imagine taking eight chapters just to talk about the king's death, but without much going on.

However, this entire storyline was quite bland and it took me a long time to finish it. I am not a fan of slow-paced books, but I do find some of them that worked well. My first problem with the book is that the plot ran a bit slowly for me, especially in the beginning. And I don't know if this contributed to one of the reasons as to why I didn't find myself enjoying this. Not sure if I have to know how the Princess Bride goes since I never read the book nor have I watched the movie (I'm just not a tv person in general) so, I had a hazy sense of how the book will be. Decided to read this one because I get to know that this is a gender-bent of the Princess Bride retelling.

The princess will save you sarah henning