Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day GeorgeYoung Adult, 2009
from fantasticfiction.co.uk:
Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of twelve princesses condemned to dance each night for the King Under Stone. Together Galen and Rose will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to dance at the midnight balls. All they need is one invisibility cloak, a black wool chain knit with enchanted silver needles, and that most critical ingredient of all - true love - to conquer their foes in the dark halls below.
Raspberry: I loved this sweet fractured fairy-tale. It had engaging characters and inventive ideas. I didn't understand some of the other problems, like why the king couldn't afford smaller things and other problems in the kingdom, although the King Under Stone and his characters were so well fleshed-out that I hardly noticed.
Graded an A-.
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