Book Review: The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

The Heroes Guide to Storming the Castle, Christopher Healy, Walden Pond Press, New York, 2013.

This book is a fun ride.  It is the sequel to “The heroes Guide to Saving Your Kingdom”.  For the most part, it has the same characters, except for adding the really bad people from Dar.  They intermingle with the robbers of Rauberia, and threaten the world. 

But I am getting ahead of myself.  This book starts with the forced marriage of Briar Rose and Liam, or sleeping beauty and her Prince Charming.  Turned out in the last book, Liam wanted out of the marriage, but Briar rose could not have that.  In addition, Briar has a plot to steal a sword with magical powers from the robbers Rauber.  This is the sword of Arinthia, the which was stolen by Deeb Rauber and his men, but they do not know its magical powers.  Liam and the Order of Prince Charming are given the task.  They recruit a troll, a giantess, Rapunzel who is a healer, a bounty hunter, Liam’s sister Lila who is also adept and getting into small places, Snow White, Ella (Cinderella) as well as the original order of the four Princes Charming, and they are off.  Unfortunately they also recruit someone to pretend to be a thief; but turns out to really be a thief.  Everything goes wrong, or at least not like they had planned it. 

This is a very enjoyable book and I recommend it highly.  It leaves things in the air, and the next book has not come out yet which is a bit frustrating.

Book Review: The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, written by: Christopher Healy, drawings by : Todd Harris, Walden Pond Press, New York, 2012.
This book was fun.  It is taking the stories of the Prince Charmings, and making fun how Charming is a generic name, and the story telling skips any specifics other than the accomplishments of the women who are saved.  Some of the personalities are not what you would expect.  In this case the Charmings face a mean witch, and a band of robbers headed by a ten year old.
This book is well done.  It does get a bit slow in the middle, but not too slow.  The author makes good use of humor.  This keeps the story moving through the slow parts.  As for a theme I think that would be that their is an importance to having friends, and in working together you can accomplish more.