Charming

by Jade Linwood

Overview

Brave, Resourceful, Deceitful, Double-Crossing... Charming.

Prince Jean-Marc Charming Arundel, known to friends and enemies alike as "Prince Charming," is handsome, well-mannered, brave, a peerless swordsman, a cunning tactician – and a liar, a con man and a fraud. For years he has been travelling from one kingdom to the next, rescuing endangered princesses and maidens, securing their troths and his place in their fathers' palaces, then looting their treasuries and having it away before dawn.

Until a chance meeting of three of his victims – raven-haired Marie Blanche de Neige, the sorceress Doctor Emilia Rapunzel and the long-slumbering Bella Lucia dei’ Sogni – suggests a course of revenge...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786188472
Publisher:	Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	07/18/2023
Series:	Charming , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jade Linwood was raised in Oxfordshire, with books, cats and apple trees.

Jade has lived in Dorset, Wiltshire, Wales, Cambridgeshire and London, and has travelled to Venice, Paris, Rome, Athens, Jordan, and Egypt’s White Desert. Jade has competed in swordfighting competitions, been a member of a travelling theatre company, flown on military transport and was once offered a part in The Bill.

There are still books, cats, and apple trees. Everything else is mutable.

Editorial Reviews

"A pacy fantasy romp – idiosyncratic, but an entertaining slice of fun." — The Guardian on Bad Gods

"The author has a flair for storytelling... you’ll enjoy this if you appreciate the better end of female-friendly fantasy. — SFX on Bad Gods

"This book promised me fun and frolics of a fantasy nature, and I was not disappointed. The story is fast, fun and feisty." — British Fantasy Society on Bad Gods

“Delightful” — Booklist

“A delightfully twisted mash-up of fairy tales... Fans of Alix E. Harrow’s Fractured Fables series or Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson’s The Tales of Pell series will enjoy this story” — Library Journal

From the Publisher

05/01/2023

Jean-Marc Charming Arundel is everything a prince should be: handsome, charismatic, and skilled with swords and saving kingdoms. His bravery earns praise and the hand of the beautiful lady of the land, but his true motives are revealed when he is gone the next morning. Left behind are an empty treasury and broken hearts. When three of his victims—Marie Blanche de Neige, Bella Lucia dei' Sogni, and Doctor Emilia Rapunzel—meet by chance, they discover the depths of his artifice. Now Prince Charming will face the wrath of women scorned—and their plans for revenge. Minor characters such as dwarves, fairies, and donkeys are given stronger roles to support the leads and create a more robust backstory. The twists in the plot pay respect to the original tales, while creating three-dimensional characters with their own desires. VERDICT A delightfully twisted mash-up of fairy tales, filled with amusing dialogue and unusual character variations. Fans of Alix E. Harrow's "Fractured Fables" series or Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson's "The Tales of Pell" series will enjoy this story from Linwood (who wrote Bad Gods under the name Gaie Sebold).—Kristi Chadwick

Library Journal