Rating: 4/5
Overview:
Jean-Michel (puke to the name?) is our leading male. The Frog Prince. If you've read the story this book is based on, you have the frog who returns a golden ball to a spoiled princess and depending on the version of the story either gets a kiss or thrown against a wall. At this time, he returns to being a man! Woo! In this story, Jean-Michel is a boy, yes child, stuck in froggy doomdom. That is, until a blonde toddler shoves him in her mouth in an attempt to eat him, as toddlers are prone to doing with anything they can get their hands on. Poof! Frog becomes boy! He'd been saved by THE ONE. Happily ever after is ready to begin! Or so you'd think.
For some reason unbeknownst to me, the royal family decides not to keep track of this girl who broke the curse. There is no story about losing her. It just fast forwards to our Froggie's approaching 30th birthday and he's on the search for her. Why? Because if he doesn't marry the slobbering child, he turns back into a frog. Ribbit! We learn some background, our frog has grown into a playboy prince. A selfish one at that. He's more than made up for all those beginning years as a frog. He has a drunk ass fairy godmother, a cousin who is a villain and days to secure an engagement and marry the princess he believes broke the curse. Enter Beauty.
Beauty is a fricken wreck. She's narcoleptic. She's gross. She stays in pjs all day. She's annoying. She's THE ONE. He's sure of it. Lucky him. After a drunken night of self pity on the town, he learns he may have accidentally put a hit on his new bride-to-be. He also finds himself with a new tattoo from a beautiful tattoo artist. Enter the second love interest! (We discussed last time that there was always two, right?)
Lollie is the opposite of beauty. She's smart, sexy, inked and fairly kick ass. She also is the probably girlfriend of the assassin for hire. Dun Dun DUN. So naturally, Froggie-boy starts to fall in love with her while racing to save his bride-to-be. Will he save her? Who will he choose? Why the fuck does he keep Karl around? Read it and find out?
Thoughts:
There were characters I both loved and hated in this book. I never really came to love our frog prince, even though I loved the story and how it turned out. I hated Karl, the manservant. Seriously. I just wanted him to be fired or hit by a car. Beauty actually became my favorite character, pre-big ending. Toward the middle of the book. I still liked her at the end too, of course.
There are some twists I didn't see coming in this book. There are a few I kind of saw but wasn't sure of and when they happened, it wasn't quite what I expected. Naturally, I can't tell you. That would ruin the book. This book was hard for me to get into at first, but once I did, I finished it quickly. This is not a kid appropriate retelling. There is lots of sex talk. It's pretty much always on Froggie's mind. There are strippers and street walkers. The story is set in the fairy tale version of Las Vegas if that helps. It really is a fucked up fairy tale. I've learned this is actually the sequel to another book on my list, however I am positive they can be read as standalones.They follow different sets of characters, with cameos from the first book. Check back later to see a post on the first book when I'm done with it!
Guess I better get reading,
Cho
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