Princess of the Silver Woods

Princess of the Silver Woods is Jessica Day George's third (and hopefully final) book in the Princess series.

The protagonist this time is Petunia, the youngest of the twelve princesses we met in Princess of the Midnight Ball. The lead male character is named Oliver. The story itself twists together Little Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood.

I'll be honest. I don't remember much about this book because I only read it once and didn't really care for it. It seems, sadly, like George's Princess series went from great to good to meh. I'm not a big fan of Petunia herself, although maybe her personality is the direct result of being the baby in a royal family.

The story takes things back to the first book, cleaning up what strings could conceivably be thought of as left unstrung. There's a new King Under Stone, and he wants the princesses back... for reasons I forget. Maybe for the same reasons as the first King Under Stone.

I also remember very little about Oliver. So I can't say for sure, but I feel like he didn't have anywhere near the adorably mature charm as Galen or the sweet boy-becoming-a-man as Christian. He was a crook, albeit a Robin Hood, but it just didn't really seem to play out well, I guess.

If George comes out with a fourth Princess book, it'll be really hard to decide if I want to buy it or not. Out of respect for the first book, I just might; but it's more likely I would rather wait until it's offered free somewhere like a library or something.