This book is a retelling of ‘The Princess and the Pea’, but where it’s an ordinary girl who gets thrown in with the royal family, and eventually earns her place there by being herself.
Alyssa is separated from her party in a storm and ends up at the Winter Palace. After completely charming the 11-year-old twin princesses (who are normally uncharmable), she’s asked to stay as their companion.
The twins’ older brother is also there, of course, and since things are pretty informal at the Winter Palace, you can pretty much see where this is going. But Alyssa manages to stay with the family when they go back to Court, and is there to save them when plans to marry off the crown prince to secure an alliance go horribly wrong.
This is fun book – nothing earth shatteringly new as far as the story is concerned, but a really enjoyable, comfortable fairy tale read.
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