Title: Dealing With Dragons.Author: Patricia C. Wrede.
Genre: Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Fairytale Rewrite/Mash-up, Humorous.
Plot: Cimorene isn't like most princesses. Her protocol and etiquette lessons are boring beyond measure and she doesn't look like most princess either, with her black hair and tall height. Looking for other interests, she secretly takes fencing lessons, then magic lessons, cooking, politics, etc. Each new interesting subject is banned when her father discovers her learning it. Finally, out of desperation, her parents cart her off to a nearby kingdom and plan to marry her off to the dimwitted prince there.
Not wanting to marry the prince, nice enough as he is, Cimorene takes advice from a talking frog and sets off to find some dragons. When she does so, she convinces Kazul, an interesting female dragon, to take her on her princess - basically, as a live-in housekeeper till a prince or knight rescues her. Kazul and Cimorene get along famously, and Cimorene loves her new life as a dragon's princess, despite the annoying knights who come to rescue her. But a plot is afoot involving the wizards lurking among the dragons' mountains and Cimorene soon has her hands full trying to figure it out.
Likes/Dislikes: This is the first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles and while it's not my favorite, it is the one in which I first met the dauntless princess Cimorene and found her quite captivating. It was especially refreshing that she isn't a blonde princess; growing up, I hated blonde princesses because I'm a brunette. About the only downside to this well written beautiful little story is all the magic in it. If you know that magic is bad and it doesn't bother you to read a story with it in it, then you should be fine.
Rating: PG-10 and up, mainly for reading level.
Date Report Written: March 12th, 2014.
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