He thinks she's peculiar. She thinks he's a joke. They're about to discover that nothing is what it seems.
Kainda is the daughter of a disgraced monster hunter. She longs to use the hunting skills her father taught her, but kitchen maids don’t get to have adventures—especially not a girl everyone thinks is crazy.
That is until devil-may-care Prince Ander enlists her help in defeating a monster troubling a nearby kingdom. As irresponsible as he is charming, Ander won’t let this opportunity to prove himself slip away—especially with a politically advantageous marriage to a beautiful princess on the line.
When Kainda and Ander join forces, they soon realize that what they’re fighting for and where their hearts lie may be at odds. Can they defeat the mysterious monster, or will duty, riddles, and secrets be their undoing?
My Take:
Note: I'm reading the series for the first time backward, and think that has helped me feel more invested in the characters since I caught a glimpse of them in a subsequent book. I was surprised to find that this story was really two entwined in one. We get Kainda's viewpoint and Opal's. Kainda is the daughter of a monster hunter who is determined to find out what happened to her father while becoming a hunter herself. Prince Ander is giving her that chance while he tries to defeat an unknown monster so he can marry Princess Opal.
I don't want to hash out what you can read in the blurb. What I liked was the little mysteries to be unraveled, as well as the journey of people recognizing that we aren't always what gossip says we are. Kainda says many profound things along the way. Poor Opal was dragged along by duty most of the book, but not from lack of trying to break free. It took love and the climax at the end to finally give her the strength to successfully become her own hero. I loved that because it felt real to me.
The only thing I'm not sure about is the surprise at the end. There were plenty of people I thought might be the big bad guy, but I never guessed the truth. It kind of came out of nowhere. That didn't ruin the story for me though.
All in all, I give the Jabberwocky Princess a 4.5 stars and a Clean rating.
1-5 scale and what it means:
1: I couldn’t even finish it / just plain bad
2: I hope I didn’t pay for this / disappointing
3: I didn’t hate it, but it was still missing something / forgettable but inoffensive
3.5: On the line between good and ok / like, not love
4: Solid mind candy / worth reading
4.5: So very close to perfection! / must read
5: I could not put it down and I’m still thinking about it! / a true treasure
Movie Ratings in relation to my review:
Clean--Hallmark movies, some kissing, no nudity, no intimacy on or off "screen"
PG--Some innuendo but nothing kids don't hear every day, intimacy is all closed door
PG-13--some language (swear words not related to intimacy), more talk about intimacy, heavy petting, removal of clothing on screen, but intimacy is closed door.
PG-14—somewhere between PG-13 and R. Not erotica, but at least a paragraph of on-screen intimacy
R--swearing (F-bomb, on “screen” intimacy, sometimes feels like the whole story is about the intimacy and not the relationship or some other plot, but not always
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