Review: The Princess Curse
My friend sent me The Princess Curse by Merrie Haskell after letting me know that she didn't care for it quite enough to keep. Frankly, I can understand why. It fascinates me how many well-written family-friendly princess books there are out there by indie authors when a famous publisher like Harper Collins would release a questionable book like this one through their children's market. I got the impression that the author wanted to write a princess story for adults , but the mainstream media likes to follow the misconception that anything involving fairy tales is solely for children , so they forced her to age down her protagonist and water down the story. Doing so turned the whole thing into a big mess of an adaptation suffering from a severe identity crisis. The Princess Curse is an adaptation of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and "Beauty and the Beast." Right off the bat, it loses points for doing exactly what every other author who wrote an a...