Prince of glass & midnight

Linsey Miller

Book - 2024

Ever since the death of his mother, Prince August of Charmant has sworn off love. Now with his growing responsibilities at court, August is unable to delay conversations of marriage any longer. But news of a magical memory curse plaguing a nearby village--the same village he used to spend his summers with his mother--offers August an escape. He convinces his father to give him five days to lead the royal investigation before returning to the palace for good. While away, August must confront his own bittersweet memories of the village, his mother, and Ella, the childhood friend he hasn't spoken to in nearly six years. But maybe the best person to help him restore the town's memories is the girl he hasn't been able to forget. O...nce reunited, August is surprised to see how Ella has changed. While she's still beautiful and clever, she's more reserved and possibly keeping secrets of her own--a fact August finds increasingly hard to ignore. Together they investigate the origins of the magic impacting the town, but the memory loss is spreading quickly, and their rekindled friendship places them in more danger than they could have imagined. With time ticking down to his return to the castle, August must grapple with his growing feelings for Ella and solve the mystery before it's too late. When the clock strikes midnight, the fate of the kingdom may just rely on finding the owner of a lost glass slipper...

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Genres
Action and adventure fiction
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Juvenile works
Novels
Romance fiction
Young adult fiction
Published
Los Angeles : Disney Press 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Linsey Miller (author)
Edition
First hardcover edition
Physical Description
377 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781368085489
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

The latest hero's backstory from the Disney universe stars Cinderella's prince. Although the king wants him to marry, Prince August clings to the memory of his first crush, Ella, who lives in Fresne. The two were close even though August, at his parents' urging, kept his royal status secret, but Ella withdrew after her widowed father remarried and then died. Warned off by her stepmother, August reluctantly gave up trying to reach Ella. His friend Martin's investigation of a series of strange occurrences in Fresne gives August the chance to return to his mother's hometown. He finds Ella wary but happy to see him, and she joins their search to learn why several townspeople have forgotten someone close to them. Solving this mystery occupies much of the novel. Miller works to update the world of the original 1950 movie version, but the prince unfortunately remains a bland placeholder (he dances; he grapples with the mystery of the glass shoe). The French-inflected world includes LGBTQ+ characters who are woven naturally into the story. (Martin becomes smitten with a young man named Oliver, whom he meets in Fresne, and one of the amnesia victims, Blaise, usesthey/them pronouns.) The leads are cued white; there's some diversity in skin tone among the supporting cast. An underwhelming spinoff that may satisfy avid Disney fans.(Fantasy. 12-16) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.