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The Princess Beard by Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson
5.0

I coincidentally read this while rereading [b:Castle Waiting, Vol. 1|177395|Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 (Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection, #1)|Linda Medley|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1289587132l/177395._SX50_.jpg|171369] [b:Castle Waiting, Vol. 2|7946252|Castle Waiting, Vol. 2 (Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection #2)|Linda Medley|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327912061l/7946252._SX50_.jpg|14571116] by Linda Medley, and the revised Sleeping Beauty/ladies with beards tropes were just zinging back and forth!
I felt like rescuing the sea otters from EATUM and the Sn'archivist's "otter balls/elf bottoms" bits were a bit of a MacGuffin, but maybe that was the point?
Loved Vic the tea-wizard centaur and Alobartalus the elf were great characters and nicely defined by the mythic cultures they were rejecting... and we got enough back story to feel satisfying and get us interested--though we got a decent dose of the Morningwood in Kill the Farmboy and, frankly, the centaurs seem toxically masculine enough that you don't really need to see more!