I knew it was gonna be good. I JUST KNEW IT!!
The action takes a little bit of time to take off, but that's how I like it, anyway! Starting from there it's a brilliant rollercoaster of folklore, magic, fairytales and intrigue and hOLY CRAP ITS ROMANIAN FOLKLORE I REPEAT /ROMANIAN/
And guys. It is done so /well/ I CAN'T EVEN. It was a pure treat to read. You can tell the author did so much research! It was incredible! She must have spent hours and hours reading all our folktales and researching Romanian cultures and traditions and HNJDJSKJ okay like every so often I'd read something, snort, and say "that's SO Romanian". Like...my country doesn't get much attention in literature. So The Princess Curse was... refreshing! And exciting! And Merrie Haskell GOT IT ALL RIGHT!! (except she mispelled "domnule" as "doamnule" but I'm gonna let that slide because I'm still on cloud nine. Though...how do you get so many cultural intricacies spot on,and then misspell such a common word? It's a little impressive! WHO CARES THOUGH IT WAS OVERALL AMAZING AND IMMA END THIS PARAGRAPH HERE BEFORE I RUN OUT OF BREATH HHAAAAH)
Reveka is our thirteen year old protagonist - a charming and clever girl with just the right amount of spunk. I ,,,love her so much. 13 pages in I texted my friend saying I would die for her. STILL TRUE. You can't help rooting for her as she does her best, in her own no-nonsense way, to break the curse and save everybody.
Partly The Twelve Dancing Princesses, partly Hades and Persephone, and all of that suffused with Romanian myths and folklore - I fell for this middle grade fantasy and I fell hard. Hdbdvsjfkf. Signing off now before everyone gets tired of me. AAAAAAAH READ IT READ IT