She does not know how she has gotten there. As Jack and his grandfather are on their way home from another failed exam in which Jack lets the “princess” die, a girl wearing a tunic emblazoned with small jewels that spell “PUNK PRINCESS” falls from the sky and right on top of Jack. But Jack, who believes there are no unmarried princesses in the kingdom, has a difficult time taking the lessons seriously-and he’s not very good at rescuing imaginary princesses. Jack is enrolled with all the village boys in hero lessons. His grandfather, an adventure like Jack’s father, wants Jack to be an adventurer and hero too. The story opens on Jack, son of Jack from the tale of the beanstalk, who lives in a small rural town with his grandfather. I prefer, I admit, to be lost immediately to a world, but I am still impressed that at no point during the book was I thrown out of the world, and that, by the end, I was even marking favorite lines, mostly things that applied aptly to the world of my WIP, but also this wonderful moment of rare recognition within the genre of medieval fantasy: “Old age? I’m fourteen. The more time that I spent in the world of James Riley’s Half Upon a Time, first in a trilogy by the same name, the more deeply I became entrenched.
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