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The Princess Chronicles #1
The Prince's Dresses
In the heart of every girl exists a princess. Deep within the hearts of some boys lives the heart of a girl. Tales of these boys are known as the Princess Chronicles…
Princess Aerin Rikutake, destined to become Queen of Cathair…
Within one year, Aerin must travel to the space colonies and survive through six trials to prove worthiness for the crown, without ever revealing the ultimate secret: Aerin’s actually a man!
A fateful encounter with Shadow Pirate Captain Nunamé Starcrosser sends his world spinning out of control and his soul trembling with heartfelt desire. Faced with the daunting task of proving himself worthy to be Queen, will Aerin have the purity of heart to find true love?
Words: 120524 (approximate)
Princess Aerin Rikutake, destined to become Queen of Cathair…
Within one year, Aerin must travel to the space colonies and survive through six trials to prove worthiness for the crown, without ever revealing the ultimate secret: Aerin’s actually a man!
A fateful encounter with Shadow Pirate Captain Nunamé Starcrosser sends his world spinning out of control and his soul trembling with heartfelt desire. Faced with the daunting task of proving himself worthy to be Queen, will Aerin have the purity of heart to find true love?
Words: 120524 (approximate)
447 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 19, 2012
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May 28, 2013
[3.5/5, rounded down because its current overall rating is a 4 (yes, I'm petty like that)]
O_O The Queen lady pulled a Padme.
Eewwwwwww
Gah. How does one of such delicate temperament become a successful queen? Her advisers must coddle the crap out of her.
And, having studied Spanish in school, I'm rather resentful the Arcane Language appears to be French (or bastardized French; I don't know enough French to make a determination one way or another).
O_O The Henry-Sango thing was actually quite good at first, but then it became really, really squicky. Squicky in its Orientalism implications.
commenting as I read, la-de-da-da~
There is awkward pronoun confusion. When Nuname (what an awkward name) first kidnaps Aerin, he calls her "princess," but then refers to her as "him" in the narration. I feel like, since it's third person limited, the author should have kept the pronouns constant until the Big Reveal. Unless the peeps who'd commissioned the kidnapping already told him? But then he later refers to him as "her" consistently...
All of the characters seem to have issues with word vomit. The author needs to be aware that characters are allowed to think things in their head. And the author's allowed to portray that.
And the author-person totally took the pirate thing from Princess Bride
This Aerin person is definitely TSTL. Hello, stranger. Let me tell you my life story.
Okay, the pronouns are a lost cause. They wander willy-nilly and are used whenever. I would have liked to see a little more deliberate use of the pronouns in conjunction with the narrations. Would have strengthened it, I think.
All of the characters act with too much knowledge. Either that, or they all deserve the Darwin Award.
You know what? I don't care. This book is absurd and doesn't make sense and I'm just going to go along with the zany ride of wtf.
Read this, people. Read it for teh lulz. You are in some crazy, zany alternate universe whose basis of logic is almost - but not quite - completely unlike our own.
This thing... so...many..descriptions...of fooood
Something I'm a little unhappy about. Why is intercourse dirty? "impure"? That's really...Victorian of you.
The sex is really, really sugary. And then it's awkwardly formal. It's like reading of an intellectual discovering sex. Trying to reconcile the technical terms of genitalia and intercourse into something flowery and "poetic."
The riddles were interesting.
You know what. It's weird shit. Really weird shit. And it becomes kind of banal towards the end. Eh. But whatever.
Still, it's a worthwhile read, I think, partly because it's so (other than the end) rather out of the norm for M/M (imo, anyways. but then, we may read different m/m stuff)
O_O The Queen lady pulled a Padme.
Eewwwwwww
Gah. How does one of such delicate temperament become a successful queen? Her advisers must coddle the crap out of her.
And, having studied Spanish in school, I'm rather resentful the Arcane Language appears to be French (or bastardized French; I don't know enough French to make a determination one way or another).
O_O The Henry-Sango thing was actually quite good at first, but then it became really, really squicky. Squicky in its Orientalism implications.
commenting as I read, la-de-da-da~
There is awkward pronoun confusion. When Nuname (what an awkward name) first kidnaps Aerin, he calls her "princess," but then refers to her as "him" in the narration. I feel like, since it's third person limited, the author should have kept the pronouns constant until the Big Reveal. Unless the peeps who'd commissioned the kidnapping already told him? But then he later refers to him as "her" consistently...
All of the characters seem to have issues with word vomit. The author needs to be aware that characters are allowed to think things in their head. And the author's allowed to portray that.
And the author-person totally took the pirate thing from Princess Bride
This Aerin person is definitely TSTL. Hello, stranger. Let me tell you my life story.
Okay, the pronouns are a lost cause. They wander willy-nilly and are used whenever. I would have liked to see a little more deliberate use of the pronouns in conjunction with the narrations. Would have strengthened it, I think.
All of the characters act with too much knowledge. Either that, or they all deserve the Darwin Award.
You know what? I don't care. This book is absurd and doesn't make sense and I'm just going to go along with the zany ride of wtf.
Read this, people. Read it for teh lulz. You are in some crazy, zany alternate universe whose basis of logic is almost - but not quite - completely unlike our own.
This thing... so...many..descriptions...of fooood
Something I'm a little unhappy about. Why is intercourse dirty? "impure"? That's really...Victorian of you.
The sex is really, really sugary. And then it's awkwardly formal. It's like reading of an intellectual discovering sex. Trying to reconcile the technical terms of genitalia and intercourse into something flowery and "poetic."
The riddles were interesting.
You know what. It's weird shit. Really weird shit. And it becomes kind of banal towards the end. Eh. But whatever.
Still, it's a worthwhile read, I think, partly because it's so (other than the end) rather out of the norm for M/M (imo, anyways. but then, we may read different m/m stuff)
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