Book #13

Violet Eyes by Debbie Viguie
195 pages
Popular Fiction
This is another one of the once upon a time series and it is a story of "The Princess and the Pea." Everything important in Violets life has always started with a storm; the day her brother was born, the day he died, before the year long drought, and when it ended. The story starts out with a storm and Violet knows something is going to happen, and it does. Prince Richard is on his way home from his one year bride hunt. Yes bride hunt, his parents want him to marry the most refined, sensitive princess ever so he has been visiting other kingdoms and giving invitations to the girls so that his parents can hold a contest to see who is the most fit to marry Richard. Richard just wishes his parents will back off. He is almost home when he sees the storm coming and he decides to go to the closest villiage to rest for the night, but on his ride there his horse trips and Richard goes flying and gets knocked out. The next moring Violet wakes up to Thomas, a neighbor who helps on the farm, screaming that someone is laying in the field and mostly likely is injured. Violet and her family nurse him back to health and when he wakes up he tells them he is the prince. As he is recovering he falls for Violet and vie versa. But Violet knows she would have to be a princess to marry him. After Richard leaves her mother falls ill and tells her that she is a princess. She was brought to them the night that the rest of the royal family was murdered, Violet is the true heir to the throne. After finding this out she rushes to the castle to join the contest and after explaining herself the King and Queen let her join. So she endures many frivolous tests with hidden meanings behind them, makes some new friends, and an enemy. In the end it is all down to Violet and Celeste, her enemy the one whose family killed hers. They are told to get a good nights sleep and will be told in the morning who one. But it is another test, a pea under twenty matteresses. Anyone with a good heart will have horrible nightmares anyone else is cold and evil. Obviuosly Violet won but when Celestes father finds out who Violet is he tries to kill her. The rebellion is put down and Violets parents come for the royal wedding.
There are some things in the book that are confusing like she says her brother dies but never says how and she seems to be a spiting image of her real mother, why didn't anybody notice?