After Happily Ever by Jennifer Safrey
Rating: 5/5
Spice: 0/5
Plot: 5/5
Primary Genre: Fantasy/Cozy fantasy
Blurb: Princesses Neve, Della, and Bry are sisters-in-law, having married into the royal Charming family, and for the last thirty-plus years, they’ve been living a coveted happily-ever-after life in the idyllic kingdom of Foreverness. But royal life isn’t what it seems. Bry’s people-pleasing is exhausting her, Della’s exquisite and renowned beauty is fading with time, and Neve dreads the prospect of becoming queen one day, because power makes one a target, and she doesn’t want to be killed...again. Then the king’s sudden death thrusts each princess into a personal quest that shows her the truth behind the kingdom’s “perfection” and challenges her sense of purpose.
My Thoughts:
This is the type of content that Disney should be releasing. A feminist’s fairy tale starring Snow White (Neve), Delle (Cinderella), and Bry (Sleeping Beauty) who are married to the Charming princes, all brothers and princes who operate quite differently in the kingdom. Neve’s husband Brockton is firstborn and will be king, Della’s husband Colby is the middle child who most definitely has a case of middle child syndrome that he needs to grow out of and Bry’s husband Lucan is last in line and is just a status quo follower type of guy. He’s a doting husband but also wants his wife to remain just that, a wife. When the king dies, the princesses get thrust into much different situations than they’ve been exposed to before and find themselves questioning whether they’re setting the correct example for the ladies on the kingdom. They’re all faced with different scenarios of decisions to accept their lives “as is” or stir things up a little bit and bring about some change in the kingdom. A wonderfully interesting storyline that intertwines traditional fairy tales with modern ideas of women’s rights and strong female characters. The perfect fairy tale to inspire us and our daughters.
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