The Princess Pact: A Twist on Rumpelstiltskin (Four Kingdoms, #3)

by Melanie Cellier

Spinning straw into gold was only the beginning of the story…

Marie, the dutiful princess of Northhelm, chafes under the rigid protocol that governs her life. Then a growing darkness threatens the kingdom and uncovers the lie at the centre of her whole life – a single pact that changes everything.

Throwing off convention, she joins Rafe, a handsome, charming newcomer, on a quest to save her kingdom. Except he doesn’t know she has a mission of her own – to discover the truth about her identity. Increasingly drawn to Rafe’s strength and good humour, Marie is torn by her double purpose. With time running out and death and destruction looming, Marie will have to unravel the bargains that surround her and choose where her true allegiance lies.

In this twist on the classic fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin, a hidden identity is just one of the things Marie will have to unravel.

• ISBN10: 064808017X
• ISBN13: 9780648080176
• Publish Date: 6 March 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: AU
• Imprint: various Australia publishers
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 280
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

A quick, light little read. Being a fairy tale retelling and having read the next book in the series there weren’t many surprises (even though it tried).

And the story wasn’t so much woven as explained.

And Rumplestilskin is too obviously pulled from Once Upon a Time in his physical description and high précised laugh am general demeanor. And there’s a line from Harry Potter toward the end. Innocuous but distinct enough that I recognized it. So I would have liked, even if she was inspired by these things, for the author to have made them more her own.

But I liked when the moment came that the heroine told the truth, all of it. And the understanding the main characters gave each other without being stubborn or stupid or judgmental or anything. It was a nice sort of gracious storytelling that I enjoyed.