HomeOne of the reasons I write is so someone has written the stuff I want to read. (Gee, I’d love to read a book that’s one part Phillip Marlowe, one part Lovecraft and one part Forever Knight… Damn, I guess I’ll just have to write it myself!) Sometimes, I get really lucky and someone out in the world has taken the time to write something I want to read so that I don’t have too. It looks like Jim C. Hines has done just that by writing a novel to satisfy my strangest childhood fantasy exposed to date. (I said fantasy, not fetish, thank you.) In writing a book called The Stepsister Scheme, and if it’s anything near as awesome as it’s premise, I have reached girl-geek Nirvana. From Hines’ website:
Cinderella–whose real name is Danielle Whiteshore (nee Danielle de Glas)–does marry Prince Armand. And if you can ignore the pigeon incident, their wedding is a dream come true. But not long after the “happily ever after,” Danielle is attacked by her stepsister Charlotte, who suddenly has all sorts of magic to call upon. And though Talia–otherwise known as Sleeping Beauty–comes to the rescue (she’s a martial arts master, and all those fairy blessings make her almost unbeatable), Charlotte gets away. That’s when Danielle discovers a number of disturbing facts: Armand has been kidnapped and taken to the realm of the Fairies; Danielle is pregnant with his child; and the Queen has her own very secret service that consists of Talia and Snow (White, of course). Snow is an expert at mirror magic and heavy duty flirting. Can the three princesses track down Armand and extract both the prince and themselves from the clutches of some of fantasyland’s most nefarious villains?
Couldn’t you just scream with excitement? Well, okay, probably not, but I can, and am! Of course, this isn’t an endorsement, not yet anyway, I have to read it first, but it is a HOLY CRAP NEAT LOOKING BOOK ALERT! I’ll keep you posted on this once I’ve read it. (And Jim, if you’re reading this, be careful poking around in my head for novel ideas I want to read, there are some scary places.)
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