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| Title | : | The Decoy Princess (Princess #1) |
| Author | : | Dawn Cook |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 356 pages |
| Published | : | November 29th 2005 by Ace |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Romance. Fiction. Adventure. Magic |
Dawn Cook
Paperback | Pages: 356 pages Rating: 3.71 | 4595 Users | 222 Reviews
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Princess Contessa of Costenopolie knows everything a royal should about diplomacy, self-defense, politics... and shopping. She ought to. She had every reason to believe that she was groomed to rule. But her next lesson is in betrayal...The sudden arrival of her betrothed, a prince from the kingdom of Misdev, has forced Tess's parents to come clean: She's no princess. Their real daughter was raised in a nunnery for fear of assassins. Tess is nothing but a beggar's child bought off the streets as an infant and reared as a decoy.
So what's a royal highness to do when she discovers she's a royal target? Ditch the Misdev soldiers occupying the palace, use magical abilities she didn't even know she had, restore the real princess to the throne, and save her own neck. But first, Tess has to deal with the scoundrel who's urging her to run away from it all, and the Misdev captain who's determined to thwart her plans...
Present Books During The Decoy Princess (Princess #1)
| Original Title: | The Decoy Princess (Princess, #1) |
| ISBN: | 0441013554 (ISBN13: 9780441013555) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Princess #1 |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 4595 Users | 222 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books The Decoy Princess (Princess #1)
A fun read, but not one of my favorites. Dawn Cook has great characters, and I'm excited to read the second one for more development in their relationships. Tess is a fun mix of girlish princess and assassin. I would have liked her to kick some batooty with her whip, but the darts were fun, too. Can't wait to see more of Jeck!This book BARELY passed The Bechdel Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel...), and even then I believe I was over halfway through it before it did even that. I mean, come on! The main character is a woman!I enjoy straightforward, fluff fantasy books and like to have a few on the go to balance out some of the heavier things I am reading. It's not like I have very high expectations for them -- but even so this one really fell flat.
I'm really not sure what annoyed me more about this book. Well I had a list of things but everything seems so vague now. Evidently the biggest flaw is how boring it was. No no I remember! It's the girl. The girl is the most annoying part. She's very idiotic. And yet also very turned on. By men. If she mentioned how big Jeck's shoulders were one more time. Like I do not need to be reminded of that shit. I got it. Oh but here we go about how broad his scarred up back is...well oh gee golly get
I really didn't want to like The Decoy Princess, by Dawn Cook. After all, it follows in the same vein as too many of my own fantasy stories: young woman from a commoner's background thrust into intrigue. Now, my stories frequently involve inappropriate pairings of woman and dragon, and nothing like that happens in this book.When I read the first three chapters, I was disappointed. We, the readers, already know the big revelation coming up: Tess is going to be told that her whole life is a lie,
You ever get the feeling that the author switched horses about halfway through the book? That was the sense I got reading The Decoy Princess. I picked this one up at our favorite local used book store thinking it was a nice crossover for Michele & I: a touch of historic fantasy, a light romance, some action and intrigue...What I got was an oddity. It feels as though Cook started off writing this as an adventure romance, something occuping the same neighborhood as Laura Kinsale's The Shadow
This is the first book in Cooks Princess duology. Dawn Cook also writes as Kim Harrison. I enjoyed this fun fantasy adventure novel. The book is very YA in tone and is mostly about the heroine figuring out who she is (both in an actual and more philosophical sense).I listened to this on audiobook and it was decently done. It wasnt my favorite audiobook because I didnt like the voice the narrator used for Tess and found it distracting. I never really got used to it. I would recommend reading this
I'm really not sure what annoyed me more about this book. Well I had a list of things but everything seems so vague now. Evidently the biggest flaw is how boring it was. No no I remember! It's the girl. The girl is the most annoying part. She's very idiotic. And yet also very turned on. By men. If she mentioned how big Jeck's shoulders were one more time. Like I do not need to be reminded of that shit. I got it. Oh but here we go about how broad his scarred up back is...well oh gee golly get
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