Review: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth, has offered up a very different "princess in the tower" story. The witch who put Princess Floralinda in a tower emphasizes it was "nothing personal." The princes who try to rescue her are probably goodhearted but are pretty inept at fending off the dragon on the first flight of the tower, and other delights are ahead on each of the flights to the top. Unicorns, mermaids, goblins, giant spiders, I mean, the tower is a tower of horrors, or delights, if you're a witch trying to make a go of challenging princes. After months of languishing with little more than bread, milk, oranges, and such (mind you, when you get hungry enough, the ever-replenishing aspect of these is quite the boon) Floralinda has had enough and plans to forge her way down the tower stairs on her own to an escape. To do this she enslaves a bottom-of-the-garden fairy by the name of Cobweb, who may or may not (probably not) be female, and who is clever but an absolute trial. Floralinda captures her in order to gain expertise in escaping the witch's tower because Floralinda is a smart enough cookie to know she isn't smart at all. Cobweb is her ticket out of this place. But if they're not careful, they'll come to love each other, in spite of every ounce of common sense telling them otherwise. Are princesses who rescue themselves still princesses? To. Be. Determined.
An utter delight, this novella was a limited edition hardcover release from Subterranean Press, but is available in an ebook format and in an audiobook edition narrated by the wonderful Moira Quirk, who narrates the "Locked Tomb" books featuring Gideon and Harrow the Ninth.
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth, has offered up a very different "princess in the tower" story. The witch who put Princess Floralinda in a tower emphasizes it was "nothing personal." The princes who try to rescue her are probably goodhearted but are pretty inept at fending off the dragon on the first flight of the tower, and other delights are ahead on each of the flights to the top. Unicorns, mermaids, goblins, giant spiders, I mean, the tower is a tower of horrors, or delights, if you're a witch trying to make a go of challenging princes. After months of languishing with little more than bread, milk, oranges, and such (mind you, when you get hungry enough, the ever-replenishing aspect of these is quite the boon) Floralinda has had enough and plans to forge her way down the tower stairs on her own to an escape. To do this she enslaves a bottom-of-the-garden fairy by the name of Cobweb, who may or may not (probably not) be female, and who is clever but an absolute trial. Floralinda captures her in order to gain expertise in escaping the witch's tower because Floralinda is a smart enough cookie to know she isn't smart at all. Cobweb is her ticket out of this place. But if they're not careful, they'll come to love each other, in spite of every ounce of common sense telling them otherwise. Are princesses who rescue themselves still princesses? To. Be. Determined.
An utter delight, this novella was a limited edition hardcover release from Subterranean Press, but is available in an ebook format and in an audiobook edition narrated by the wonderful Moira Quirk, who narrates the "Locked Tomb" books featuring Gideon and Harrow the Ninth.
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