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Charming
Charming | Jade Linwood
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9 to 5 with fairy tale princesses in a delightful comic fantasy revenge/heist! Brave, Resourceful, Deceitful, Double-Crossing... Charming. Prince Jean-Marc Charming Arundel, known to friends and enemies alike as "Prince Charming," is handsome, well-mannered, brave, a peerless swordsman, a cunning tactician and a liar, a con man and a fraud. For years he has been travelling from one kingdom to the next, rescuing endangered princesses and maidens, securing their troths and his place in their fathers' palaces, then looting their treasuries and having it away before dawn. Until a chance meeting of three of his victims raven-haired Marie Blanche de Neige, the sorceress Doctor Emilia Rapunzel and the long-slumbering Bella Lucia dei Sogni suggests a course of revenge...
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kissmehardy
Charming | Jade Linwood
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Very charming, no pun intended! Loved all the princesses coming together John Tucker Must Die style to get some justice. And maybe a sequel will come? #fantasy #fairytales #retellings

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julesG
Charming | Jade Linwood
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Fairytale retellings with Prince Charming as a villainous character and three of the charmed princesses bonding to get their revenge on him? Sounded fun, but I just didn't gel with the writing style and the overall 'it's supposed to be Pratchett-esque but trying too hard' feeling that made me dislike the book more than I liked it.

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Andrew65 Not a great run at the moment. 1y
julesG @Andrew65 it's 76% me and my high expectations, but I'm hoping of picking a 5-star read soon. 1y
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1y
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julesG
Charming | Jade Linwood
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Tiny #AudiobookRant

Is it too much to ask that a narrator checks the pronunciation of a word they might not have spoken aloud before? Or that the editor picks up on the error?

The noun "scythe" and verb "scythed" come up several times right at the beginning of the book and are pronounced "skythed" ?? makes me shudder. The C is silent.

The plot and writing style aren't great either. I might bail.

#NetGalley #ARC + library #audiobook

AlaMich Two of my pet peeves: weird word repetitions and a narrator mispronouncing words!! 1y
julesG @AlaMich Glad I'm not alone. 1y
squirrelbrain Gggrr, how annoying! 1y
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Hooked_on_books This deeply irritates me as well. Especially in the internet age, when one can google a word and get a pronunciation easily. I actually even heard a reader pronounce Uber as “You-Ber” recently. Really?!? 1y
ravenlee Ugh, that‘s awful. 1y
Hooked_on_books @GingerAntics Yes! I was stunned. It was later said correctly, so they obviously fixed a few occurrences but not that one. 1y
GingerAntics @Hooked_on_books 🤦🏼‍♀️ that‘s worse! 1y
Susanita Ugh. That just takes me right out of the book! Sometimes I wonder about the editing process for audiobooks. 1y
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Preciouz29
Charming | Jade Linwood
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So much fun to read! A crazy heist fairytale that was fast paced and hilarious. Fun ending too that definitely leaves the door open just enough in case there are future books. A mixed up mashup in the best possible way.