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Prince of Thorns & Nightmares
by Linsey Miller
Prince of Thorns and Nightmares is the second book in the Disney Princes series that retells these classic Disney stories from the prince’s point of view. This time if follows Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty. Since he was a child, Prince Phillip has known he will marry Princess Aurora and become her protector from Maleficent. Now as time grows nearer to the fulfillment day of Maleficent’s curse on Aurora, Phillip is approached by three fairies who tell him of a way to defeat Maleficent once and for all. And doing so may just be exactly what Phillip needs to take his future into his own hands as a different girl is in his dreams every night.
I wanted to like this book, but I just could not. I had issues with both the story and characterization. Prince Phillip just came across so intractable and stubborn as he makes things difficult for everyone. I just did not find him all that likable.
As for the story, it was overly convoluted and doesn’t really make much sense. The story was constrained by what the Disney movie portrayed as it had to be faithful to that. I don’t think the way the story was written really tied in all that well, so some of the sequences that are directly lifted from the movie came off as nonsensical (like that part where Prince Phillip dances with his father after he says he has met the woman he will marry). I also didn’t much care for the dream sequences with the anonymous girl Briar Rose (hate that name) as well as the three fairies storyline. So I pretty much didn’t like all added parts to the main story.
I just think the author made strange choices on how she interpreted the “Once Upon a Dream” song and used that as her centerpiece to tell Phillip’s story then embellished it with even weirder choices with the Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue storyline with the three fairies.
Prince of Thorns and Nightmares just didn’t work for me unfortunately.
I wanted to like this book, but I just could not. I had issues with both the story and characterization. Prince Phillip just came across so intractable and stubborn as he makes things difficult for everyone. I just did not find him all that likable.
As for the story, it was overly convoluted and doesn’t really make much sense. The story was constrained by what the Disney movie portrayed as it had to be faithful to that. I don’t think the way the story was written really tied in all that well, so some of the sequences that are directly lifted from the movie came off as nonsensical (like that part where Prince Phillip dances with his father after he says he has met the woman he will marry). I also didn’t much care for the dream sequences with the anonymous girl Briar Rose (hate that name) as well as the three fairies storyline. So I pretty much didn’t like all added parts to the main story.
I just think the author made strange choices on how she interpreted the “Once Upon a Dream” song and used that as her centerpiece to tell Phillip’s story then embellished it with even weirder choices with the Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue storyline with the three fairies.
Prince of Thorns and Nightmares just didn’t work for me unfortunately.