Review: True Princess
It's hard to find new retellings of "The Princess and the Pea" that don't stray too far from the original source material . That could be because the soft delicate princess presented in the original fairy tale is the exact opposite of how princesses are portrayed in modern media . Nevertheless, Kayla Eshbaugh does her best to honor the source material in her premiere fairy tale retelling, True Princess . This is the first book in The Cursed Kingdom Chronicles , which expands upon the world of fairy tales by making each princess's unique situation a curse on her kingdom created by the Ancients, a vengeful race of magic users. The premise is similar to Ever Cursed without all the misandry. Using this overarching narrative, the book provides a simple explanation as to why the princess from "The Princess and the Pea" was so delicate that she turned black and blue from a single pea being placed under her mattress. True Princess is stereotypical in its pr...