The Princess Protection Program by Alex London

Item: The Princess Protection Program
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted February 29, 2024 by karenbaron in Children's, Fantasy, Review / 0 Comments

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from NetGalley. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

The Princess Protection Program

by Alex London

Published by Greenwillow Books on February 13, 2024
Genres: Middle Grade Fantasy
Pages: 224
Format: Audible Audiobook, Audio CD, Hardcover, Kindle
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Where can a princess hide if her Ever After isn’t all that Happy? Bestselling author Alex London turns classic fairy tales on their heads in this fast-paced, funny fantasy about embracing change and taking control of your own story. For fans of the School for Good and Evil and the Chronicles of Never After series.

Every fairy tale ends with its characters living happily ever after, right? A valiant prince quests long and hard to reach the castle where the sleeping princess lies. And with a kiss, he awakens her.

But what if the princess does not think a kiss from a stranger is a very pleasant way to wake up? Yuck!

When Rosamund flees her prince, a Door of Opportunity opens, and she steps through it to the Home Educational Academy (the HEA for short). Rosamund has found the Princess Protection Program, where fugitive fairy-tale princesses escape unwanted affections, untimely ends, and all the other perils of their stories.

But the longer Rosamund lives in the real world, the more questions she has. Does anyone ever graduate from the HEA? Why doesn’t anyone seem to remember the former students? Is the kindly fairy headmistress all she appears to be? Is anyone? And the most important question of all: Can Rosamund change her story?

Acclaimed and bestselling author Alex London weaves together several beloved fairy tales in this fast-paced, funny, and slyly subversive adventure about finding your place in the world.

The Princess Protection Program by Alex London is about princesses getting a second chance.

Will the Royals from HEA make their own decisions about their stories?

The Royals

Princess Rosamund finds Home Educational Academy, set in the real world, when she flees from her story, opens a Door of Opportunity. While there Rosamund encounters, Rana, Sirena, Cindy, Charlie, and countless others that have fled their own stories because they didn’t like what was happening. Rosa is a curious princess that has been asleep for a hundred years because she pricked her finger on a spindle and now she has been awakened by a kiss that makes her run away. She ends up at this school where she meets the other royals, and I love them all. I have to say that Mr. London had a great idea, and how he spun each one to work within this world is amazing.

Rosa, our main character, is so curious about everything that I admire her for everything that she has done throughout the book.

The Story

Rosa ends up making a lot of friends throughout this journey and her curiousness makes her a great character as she is able to ask the questions that none of the others ever thought about asking before. Rosamund, after being asleep for a hundred years, just wants to understand a lot of things, especially about what they are teaching them at the school. Although, something is sinister underfoot at this so called Princess Protection Program with one of the princes.

I have to say that Mr. London had me at the edge of my seat throughout the entire story.

Five Stars

I am giving a five star rating to The Princess Protection Program by Alex London and recommending it to anyone that loves a good middle grade fantasy book. It has the right amount of fantasy while also allowing people to use their imagination to figure some things out. The underlying message is great as well.

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of The Princess Protection Program by Alex London.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

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About Alex London

Alex London is the author of over 30 books for children, teens, and adults, with over 2 million copies sold. He’s the author of the middle grade Search & Rescue, Dog Tags, Tides of War, Wild Ones, and Accidental Adventures series, as well as two titles in the 39 Clues. His latest middle grade series, Battle Dragons, has appeared on multiple state reading lists for middle and elementary school. Out now from Scholastic, Battle Dragons is a cyberpunk romp that’s The Fast and the Furious meets How to Train Your Dragon. For young adults, he’s the author of the cyberpunk duology Proxy, an ALA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Readers, Best Fiction For Young Adults, and Rainbow List selection and the epic fantasy trilogy, Black Wings Beating, an NBC Today Show Pick, a Kirkus Best Young Adult Fantasy selection, a Seventeen Magazine best of 2018 pick, and a We Need Diverse Books 2018 Must Read, and a 2020 Rainbow List selection. He’s been a journalist and human rights researcher reporting from conflict zones and refugee camps, a young adult librarian with New York Public Library, an assistant to a film agent, and a snorkel salesman. He lives with his husband, daughter, and hound dog in Philadelphia, PA.