A review by ladyazulina
A World Without Princes by Soman Chainani

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• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It doesn’t get better, it’s just getting worse.

The first book has an end, but they weren’t Happily Ever After. They needed more. And though I’m good with the idea of princesses –or just girls– not needing princes, what this book is about isn’t exactly what I was expecting.

How will be the world if there weren’t any prince—any resemblance of a prince at all? That I was expecting.

How will be the world if the princes were seen as-? Uhm… I think that will be a spoiler.

The point is that I was expecting what the title was hinting: a world without princes. And I think we had even more of them than before.

If there’s something those books are teaching me is that I better be true to myself, because even if the world is ending, I will find some sort of peace. I still think that a bit of communication for every part will have made all that rollercoaster smoother, but they’re stubborn people, each and every one of them. They all took the impulsive, rash decision, and everything went complex, harder than needed. And to what end?

Yeah, I’m taking it better, not looking at it too close nor looking for meanings, just reading, and I’m getting invested with the story. I feel like everything until now has been accumulated tension and is finally time for the climax. Is finally time for every piece to fall in place. I mean, not in this book, this book is the harder part of a hella, steep climb, where you’re exhausted and able to see the desired top. The next book is the climax, or at least that’s what I hope for. All this build-up tension is maddening.