Warrior Princess by Frewin Jones ISBN 9780060871437
There are some days when I have a whole stack of books on my bedside table and nothing to read. I was in one of those moods when I was walking in the children’s room and saw this book on the shelf display. The cover is just strange enough to attract attention: a beautiful brunette in a red dress to die for … except if I read the book correctly the heroine preferred her brother’s hunting jerkin and going into the forest and hunting with a slingshot. But do clothes really matter?
Branwen is a young woman who witnesses her brother’s death and is then forced by her parents to wed some young prince in a neighboring kingdom which is supposedly safer. Branwen is the sole surviving child of the union of a famed woman warrior who co-rules their little kingdom and she does not understand the other kingdoms and their ideas of the role of women. She wants to learn the military arts, but her mother has hoped to have her escape all that difficulty.
This is a good story and it does delve briefly into the idea of the old mystic faith of the British Isles. It is pleasant — yet there seems to be more made of how different Branwen is from the spoiled princesses of other kingdoms than the destiny that is presented to her and the decisions that need to be made.
It was a pleasant story and if you like fantasy … check this out. You won’t find a “to die for” book … but you will find a good book.
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