Princess of the Midnight Ball

Twelve Dancing Princess, Book 1

By: Jessica Day George

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's Summary

A tale of 12 princesses doomed to dance until dawn…

Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of 12 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. But malevolent forces are working against them above ground as well, and as cruel as the King Under Stone has seemed, his wrath is mere irritation compared to the evil that awaits Galen and Rose in the brighter world above.

Captivating from start to finish, Jessica Day George's take on the Grimms' tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses demonstrates yet again her mastery at spinning something entirely fresh out of a story you thought you knew.

©2009 Jessica Day George (P)2020 Recorded Books

Good set up for the next books

I actually like the middle book best. This is a very clever story, but I am afraid that the men in the kingdom don't seem so clever to me. The outcome really hangs on a lot of fortuitous circumstances. This book embraces the fashionable in-story condemnation of those who condemn witchcraft, yet like others, it undermines that representation by populating the story with malevolent spirit beings and dark sorcery.

Fun Story!

Great clean story and well written. The performance was well done. Thanks to Audible for getting the 1st of this authors series of books I hope they get the rest of them!