The Wide-Awake Princess Review

The Wide-Awake Princess by ED Baker
Coming out May 11, 2010
Summary from Goodreads:
In this new stand-alone fairy tale, Princess Annie is the younger sister to Gwen, the princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty. When Gwennie pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie is awake, and only Annie?blessed (or cursed?) with being impervious to magic?can venture out beyond the rose-covered hedge for help. She must find Gwen's true love to kiss her awake.
But who is her true love? The irritating Digby? The happy-go-lucky Prince Andreas, who is holding a contest to find his bride? The conniving Clarence, whose sinister motives couldn't possibly spell true love? Joined by one of her father's guards, Liam, who happened to be out of the castle when the sleeping spell struck, Annie travels through a fairy tale land populated with characters both familiar and new as she tries to fix her sister and her family . . . and perhaps even find a true love of her own.

My review:
This book was a lot of fun to read. It incorporated a huge variety of our favorite classic fairy tales into one book which made it seem ridiculously hilarious and ingenious.

I loved how E.D. Baker managed to twist so many classics into one book and somehow made it work really well. I thought the plot was really cute and the though the characters weren't exactly well-developed, their fun and charm overcame it.

The plot was ingenious. The twist with the typical Sleeping Beauty story turned into a fun-filled adventure for Princess Annie that led her into meeting various characters from various fairy tales - the Princess and the Pea, Hansel and Gretel, the Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and many others. It was definitely interesting to see how each story seemed to seamlessly connect with each other without hardly any difficulties at all. Though the ending was the cliche, happily-ever-after, I have no qualms against it because that's what fairy tales are for.

Annie and Liam, though filled with charm and personality, were not exactly well-developed. However, I didn't think this was a negative thing because everything else made up for it. It wasn't something that brought the book down or anything.

Overall, I actually enjoyed The Wide-Awake Princess because it seemed to different yet so similar to the fairy tales we all know and love.

My rating:
Plot: 9/10
Theme: 9/10
Characters: 8/10
Cover: 8/10
Recommendation: 8/10
Total: 42/50=84%

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