The Rules of Ever After
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (704 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941530354 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Puns that evoke happiness, not despair" according to InkedRainbowReads. FiveStarsI don't know how to describe this book in a way that captures its grandeur. Every adjective I come up with is diminishing. Fairy tale. Humor. Adventure. Trope-bending. Epic. It's more than the sum of its parts. Though, per "epic" it is quite long. Too long to be a light romp. This, my friends, is a novel.It has multiple plot lines that all come together at the end! Different perspectives that are so fluid they aren't jolting. Puns that evoke happiness, not despair.Anyway, Prince Phillip is living a Hamlet-esque existence with his evil aunt-turned-stepmother, who's trying to marry him off to various princesses for Reasons, and. Killian B. Brewer has shaped a fantastic world in his first novel I was fortunate enough to have been given the supreme privilege of being an advance reader for Killian B. Brewer’s first novel, The Rules of Ever After. I tend to read young adult literature almost exclusively. Partially, this is due to the fact that I am a children’s librarian. First and foremost, however, it is because I truly enjoy the fresh, wonderfully written, engaging worlds that young adult literature has in spades. As such, I have been thrilled the past few years with the resurgence of quality YA literature, and with its widespread appeal that now includes more and more adult fans. The Rules of Ever After is in a . "A new twist on a classic with a twist. :)" according to C. Pack. Killian B. Brewer’s The Rules of Ever After is pretty much everything I look for in a fairy tale-with-a-twist: fun, witty, and an interesting new take on a classic. To me, reading Brewer’s book reminded me of reading Wicked for the first time. It was characters I felt I already knew but I was forced to look at them in a new light.This is, at its heart, a tale of Prince Charming finding his own Prince Charming, but it’s also much more than that. Set amid common tropes like the princess and the pea, the evil step-mother, and the royal who must marry to inherit the throne, this fairy tale includes liberated, free-spirit
A fateful, sleepless night on top of a pea under twenty mattresses brings the two young men together and sends them on a quest out into the kingdoms. The rules of royal life have governed the kingdoms of Clarameer for thousands of years, but Prince Phillip and Prince Daniel know that these rules don't provide for the happily ever after they seek. On their travels, they encounter meddlesome fairies, an ambitious stepmother, disgruntled princesses and vengeful kings as they learn about life, love, friendship and family. Most of all, the two young men must learn to know themselves and how to write their own rules of ever after.
Growing up in the South gave him a funny accent and a love of grits. The Rules of Ever After is his first novel. He began writing poetry and short fiction at 15 and continued in college where he earned a BA in English. Killian B. Brewer grew up in a family where the best way to be heard was to tell a good story, therefore he developed an early love of storytelling, puns and wordplay. He currently lives in Georgia with his partner of 10 years
Only a princess who can feel a pea under a pile of mattresses can marry the forlorn royal. Much to his surprise, he finds a young man on the tower of mattresses one night. Prince Phillip is expected to soon wed a princess although he secretly fancies gentlemen over ladies. Readers looking for well-developed characters will be sadly disappointed. Although this LGBTQ twist on "The Princess and the Pea" strikes a subversive cord, its true dissidence lies in the running theme, which suggests that one should save oneself rather than passively wait for a handsome prince to do so. None of the characters have an original voice, the tone remains monotonous, and the pacing is unnecessarily slow. Unfortunately, th