While I don’t generally gravitate to stories told in verse, I do love a good twist on a fairy tale, and I loved 8: The Previously Untold Story of the Unknown 8th Dwarf, so I was excited to read this new work from Mike Mullin, and I wasn’t disappointed.

The verse of Princess Penny didn’t flow as well to me as in 8, but the story was an interesting twist of traditional fairy tale roles, and modern times, with a cute and funny tone that kept me reading and chuckling to the very end.

Penny is a teenage princess who is constantly teased at school by the popular kids. She sets out to get revenge by hiring a witch, and got a lot more than she bargained for. The story is short and sweet, so it’s a really quick read, and definitely entertaining, especially for fans of fairytale retellings.