My Kingdom for a Sorceress

By: Laura Josephsen

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Prince Wenceslas would much rather be at home in his castle than wandering the world looking for enchanted princesses. Unfortunately, he has less than a month to fulfill a "gift" set upon him at birth by a drunken fairy godmother. If he can't rescue a princess—any princess—from a spell and marry her by his seventeenth birthday, he'll prick his finger on a glass coffin and fall into an eternal sleep that can only be broken by true love's kiss. Given that he doesn't have a true love, his options seem pretty limited. Marrying a stranger can't be worse than sleeping forever--or so he thinks until he meets Arrow, a club-wielding sorceress whose magic constantly goes awry. She convinces him that he doesn't have to let any magic, fairy godmother or otherwise, run his life. Wenceslas sets out with Arrow to look for a princess he might actually want to marry. A magic forest, a witch who collects frog princes, and love potions are only a few of the things standing in his way, but Wenceslas soon finds that what hinders him most isn't any magic...it's his own heart.

Lovable characters!

The story is great! I loved all the fairytales mentioned in it and the characters are all so loveable. This is the first book I’ve listened to that the narrating was virtually generated, and honestly it wasn’t bad. Definitely doesn’t compare to a really good person narrator, but does beat a bad narrator. At times it seems a bit wooden, and some words were mispronounced (i.e bow like hair bow, when it should have bow like bow down), but other than that it’s not bad. I hope this book eventually gets a real narrator, if it does I got a credit waiting for it. But this works in the meantime and now I know I like this book and this author’s writing.

Content: no spice, no swearing, nothing gory