The Princess Game

Faraway collection

By: Soman Chainani

Narrated by: Jess Nahikian, Alexander Cendese, Michael Crouch, Neil Shah, Greg Chun, Andrew Eiden, Josh Bloomberg, Graham Halstead, Brian Holden, Robin Eller, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ryan Jordan McCarthy, Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Publisher's Summary

There are no happy endings for the Princesses of Chaminade High in this short, twisty tale of teenage murder games by the New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil series.

The victims are the most popular girls in school, each murdered and arranged in a grim fairy-tale tableau. To find the killer, rookie detective Callum Pederson has gone undercover where the Princes hold court. He’s found enough secrets among the bros to bring them in for questioning - but he could very well get lost in the games the Princes play.

The Princess Game is part of Faraway, a collection of retold fairy tales that take the happily-ever-after in daring new directions. Whether read or listened to in one sitting, prepare to be charmed, moved, enlightened, and frightened all over again.

©2020 Soman Chainani (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Perfect ending

THE PRINCESS GAME by Soman Chainani is also a dark story, and with a terrific full cast narration, it keeps you engaged. It’s in essence a police procedural, and readers progressively get a wider and wider view of the goings-on at Chaminade High and the intricacies and high price of being part of the school’s deadly cliques. The story has solidly mature YA content with a focus on hookups, and it seems every Prince has a hurt pride motive to kill a Princess. Perfect ending.

Suspenseful Princess Murders at a High School

So not what I was expecting. It was like 21 Jump Street meets 90210 with Princes. Very suspenseful and definitely keeps your attention. The narration with the many different actors is great!

Best in series

This book is easily the best in the series. It had several twists and turns, a very good performance and, even though I figured it out, a unique and entertaining story. I would definitely read a part two but I don’t think the stories are designed to be more than one.

Disappointed with the ending

I enjoyed the book until I got to the ending. I felt it was disappointing because I felt it was too unreal and I actually thought it was kind of stupid. I can’t go into why because of spoilers.

The princess game is dangerous!

This modern retelling of a fairy tale doubles as a murder story and is not apt for little children

Who wants be a Princess anyway?

I enjoyed this story too much. Highschool - a scene of death to five (and then six) young girls dubbed Princesses due to the various and hideous ways they are killed. The Princes, aka. the Jocks, of the school are the prime suspects. An aging cop and a new police cadet are on the case with no viable leads, but plenty of suspects except for one problem: they all have alibis. It turns into 'he said, she said' and it really is quite fast paced for even an hour of time. Definitely worth it.

Not Impressed

This is the second book I’ve listened to in this series and I’m once again shocked with how little I like them. For starters, it was very easy to figure out who the killer was long before the story revealed it, and, second, I have no interest in a story emphasizing toxic masculinity. Is Amazon trying to make some sort of social point with these or what? It’s all just coming across as strange and boring to me.

Decent story.

Glad it was short. Foreseen twist at the end, but could have been told a little better.

Meh

This one is my least favorite of the group so far. It was hard to get into.

Interesting. A hmmm story.

The Narrators were excellent. The plot of the story kept you entertained. Although some of the narration was needed to be eliminated. It did help, but if storyline was written different it would bfc have sounded better. This book was entertaining.