![]() ![]() The villain, who is known as \”R\” for most of the story, takes on a role reminiscent of another famous fairy tale character, the Pied Piper. This revelation is earth-shattering to the teenage princess and places a rift between her and her family that takes the remainder of the book to mend. The twist, however, is that Marie is not the queen\’s daughter, but rather Rumpelstiltskin\’s. ![]() It\’s a whole lot closer to the story of \”Rumpelstiltskin\” than The Princess Fugitive was to \”Little Red Riding Hood.\” Marie\’s mother is the miller\’s daughter who married into royalty when she demonstrated that she could spin straw into gold, and Marie is the child who was promised to Rumpelstiltskin in return. She is a princess who never quite looks as much like a princess as she is supposed to. The Princess Pact tells the story of Marie, who was first introduced in The Princess Companion as an ally to Alyssa. The more I read the series, the more it feels like coming back to visit a beloved land instead of exploring a strange and unfamiliar one. I was pleased to find that the pacing and suspense in all three books were fairly consistent with The Princess Fugitive, and the links between the protagonists made each new story feel more welcoming than the last. ![]() ![]() Though The Princess Pact is the third full-length novel in the series, the two novellas act as the perfect bookends to link it to the second and fourth novels, respectively. ![]()
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