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    Once Upon a Rhyme: Volume I of the Charming Tales
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    Once Upon a Rhyme: Volume I of the Charming Tales

    By Jack Heckel

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    Jack Heckel puts a humorous twist on a classic tale in Once Upon a Rhyme, the first installment in the story about Prince Charming you probably have never heard…

    The dragon is dead. The princess has been saved. There is but one problem: Prince Charming had nothing to do with it.

    In order to save his royal reputation, Prince Charming must begrudgingly enlist the help of accidental hero William Pickett. The two set out on an adventure that has them fighting trolls, outwitting a scoundrel, and drinking the foulest ale ever, collecting bruises to both body and pride along the way. Meanwhile, the rescued princess, Gwendolyn, turns out to be one dangerously distressed damsel, and an evil presence takes over Castle White in Charming's absence …

    Enter this rollicking world and discover just what happens when a fairytale leaves the well-trodden path of "once upon a time."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 26, 2014
    ISBN9780062359261
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    Once Upon a Rhyme: Volume I of the Charming Tales
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    Jack Heckel

    Jack Heckel’s life is an open book. Actually, it’s the book you are in all hope holding right now (and if you are not holding it, he would like to tell you it can be purchased from any of your finest purveyors of the written word). He is the author of the Charming Tales series and The Dark Lord. Beyond that, Jack aspires to be either a witty, urbane, world traveler who lives on his vintage yacht, The Clever Double Entendre, or a geographically illiterate professor of literature who spends his non-writing time restoring an 18th century lighthouse off a remote part of the Vermont coastline. More than anything, Jack lives for his readers.

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      I read this as part of the collected volume A Fairy-tale Ending, and am reviewing them separately and together.This fairy-tale mash-up is light, amusing, and laugh-out-loud funny at times. The source of much of the humor is Prince Charming. Oh, Charming. He was raised to be the slayer of the dragon, the hero of the realm, but he prefers to idle away the hours by using horrid couplets to woo pretty women. When a pair of young farmer siblings kill the dragon and destroy Charming's prophesied glory, his life goes topsy-turvy. While the book is overall pretty breezy, there are touches of darkness here and there due to the antagonist, a figure of great sadness and complexity. I was happy that I already had the second book so I could read straight through to find out what happens next.