Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede

[lightreads]

Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles) and Searching for Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles Book 2)

3/5. A princess runs away and volunteers to be the "captive" of a dragon, and foils various wizardly plots.

Cute! If your definition of cute involves making a girl cool by cutting down every other girl in the world. They're all so vapid, you know, and girly, ugh.

Anyway, this is middle grade fantasy, and it will do, if that's what you want. But like her other series I have tried, this one starts out with a sweet and poised first book and then goes rapidly downhill into obnoxiousness. I see the writing on the wall here, so I'm bailing early. You can't fool me, Patricia C. Wrede, I'm never reading whatever the hell that third Sorcery and Cecilia book was called again.

Comments

[the_rck]

With that series, the fourth book, chronologically, is actually the first she wrote. I'm not sure I'd recommend it, though, as I think it was one of the very first things she wrote. I don't think it's as good as Dealing with Dragons.

I think I liked her early stand alone books better than her later series. They weren't particularly original, but I had fun with them. Of course, I read those in high school and college, so memory may be rosier than reality.