One of my friends recommended Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne's fantasy novel The Princess Beard (#879) and I'm glad she did. I thoroughly enjoyed this swashbuckling tale of a princess who rescues herself from a tower after years under a sleep spell. She decides for her own safety to keep the beautiful golden beard which adorned her porcelain chin when she awoke, but she is still determined to escape a political marriage to a rich lordling.
On her travels she meets up with a whole host of entertaining characters with dreams of their own - a parrot pirate, a dryad who aspires to become a lawyer, an elf who wants to learn the secrets of the universe, and a centaur who wants to be rid of his tea magic. There are wizards and trolls and the Royal Navy on the high seas to contend with, and a boatload of adorable otters to rescue.
All will (hopefully!) come right in the end with tea cakes galore and abundance of puns both clever and groanworthy. This was a read that was so much fun I will have to go back to the previous two books in the trilogy by this writing team, Kill the Farm Boy and No Country for Old Gnomes, although The Princess Beard works just fine as a stand-alone novel. Yarrr!
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