A review by jassmine
The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

2.0

I loved the first book [b:The Princess and the Goblin|444381|The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)|George MacDonald|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348689290l/444381._SY75_.jpg|3193161] as a kid and then had a major disillusionment with it on a re-read as an adult. I still decided to read the second book in the series because that was the whole reason why I re-read the first book and I was curious. This book isn't really problematic in the same way the first book is problematic, but it's really boring. This is just very thinly veiled Christian messaging and... I mean, if I wanted to read that I would have just picked up the Bible, probably Evangelium according to John, because that one is actually entertaining to read. Or Narnia books... though, I am a bit worried about that re-read now too. I thought I would write more detailed review for this book, but you know what, I don't really want to waste my time on that...

Also, dogs die in this one...

Listened to this free audiobook, it's not the best I listened to from LibriVox, but it was fine: https://librivox.org/the-princess-and-curdie-version-2-by-george-macdonald/