By Jessica Day George
Hopping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess
Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program. She travels
abroad hoping to find better political alliances and perhaps a marriage. But
thanks to a vengeful fairy, Poppy’s happily ever after gets complicated.
This is the second installment in Jessica Day George’s
fairy-tale retellings about the princesses from Princess of the Midnight Ball,
better known as the 12 dancing princesses. This is the story of Poppy, one of
the twin girls from the above prequel. She’s sarcastic and snappy, down to
earth, and stubborn. Poppy is sick to death of dancing, having just escaped a
curse that required her to, even though she’s an incredible dancer because of
it. Now, she’s trapped in an upside-down version of Cinderella, and she’s
trying her best to figure out who exactly Eleanor, Ella, or Lady Ella is, and
she’s trying to get rid of a vengeful fairy-godmother called The Corley as well
as trying to help out the prince who is the target: Christian. This is a fun
and creative perspective on the Cinderella tale, where the main character is in
fact NOT Cinderella. It was fun and cute, though it seemed to end rather
abruptly without much problem. Seemed to me that the Corley shouldn’t have been
defeated so quickly or easily. Oh well.
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